| Chinese Text Project |
| Character | Composition | Variants | Reading | Meaning | Hanyu | Kangxi | Cihai |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 五 | 二+2 | 伍 𠄡 㐅 | wǔ ㄨˇ | five; surname | v1,p0011#03 | p.86#11 | p.64r3c01 |
| 十 | 十+0 | 拾 拾 | shí ㄕˊ | ten, tenth; complete; perfect | v1,p0058#09 | p.155#17 | p.207r5c02 |
| 九 | 乙+1 | 玖 | jiǔ ㄐㄧㄡˇ | nine | v1,p0048#05 | p.83#19 | p.48r6c01 |
| 年 | 干+3 | 秊 𠫺 | nián ㄋㄧㄢˊ | year; new-years; person's age | v1,p0037#06 | p.340#01 | p.483r6c01 |
Example usage
| 《莊子·則陽》: | 蘧伯玉行年六十而六十化，未嘗不始於是之而卒詘之以非也，未知今之所謂是之非五十九年非也。 |
| When Qu Bo-yu was in his sixtieth year, his views became changed in the course of it. He had never before done anything but consider the views which he held to be right, but now he came to condemn them as wrong; he did not know that what he now called right was not what for fifty-nine years he had been calling wrong. | |
| 《史記·周本紀》: | 五十九年，秦取韓陽城負黍，西周恐，倍秦，與諸侯約從，將天下銳師出伊闕攻秦，令秦無得通陽城。 |
| 《後漢書》: | 立五十九年薨，子簡王錯嗣。 |
| 《竹書紀年》: | 五十九年，貫胸氏來賓，長股氏來賓。 |
| 《太平御覽·赧王》: | 五十九年，秦攻西周，王奔秦，頓首受罪，盡獻其邑三十六，口三十萬。 |
| 《宋景文公筆記》: | 余年六十，始知五十九年非，其庶幾至於道乎？ |
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