Chinese symbol for “sixteen”
十六
shí liù
sixteen; 16
The closest CC-CEDICT match for sixteen is 十六 (shí liù), defined as: sixteen; 16.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “sixteen”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 十六.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 十分 | shí fēn | very; completely |
| 十五 | shí wǔ | fifteen; 15 |
| 十八 | shí bā | eighteen; 18 |
| 十九 | shí jiǔ | nineteen; 19 |
| 十二 | shí èr | twelve; 12 |
| 二十 | èr shí | twenty; 20 |
| 六十 | liù shí | sixty; 60 |
| 六合 | liù hé | the six directions (north, south, east, west, up, down); the whole country |
See also: Japanese symbol for “sixteen”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.