miàn jī
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这个房间的面积很大。
Zhège fángjiān de miànjī hěn dà.
This room is very spacious.
中国的面积是960万平方公里。
Zhōngguó de miànjī shì 960 wàn píngfāng gōnglǐ.
The area of China is 9.6 million square kilometers.
这张纸的面积是多少？
Zhè zhāng zhǐ de miànjī shì duōshǎo?
What is the area of this piece of paper?
面积 (miànjī)
area
面积 (miànjī)
surface area
周长 (zhōucháng)
perimeter
体积 (tǐjī)
volume
The Chinese word 面积 (miànjī) for "area" is composed of two characters: 面 (miàn) and 积 (jī). The character 面 originally meant "surface" or "face", and it is still used in this sense today. The character 积 originally meant "to accumulate" or "to gather", and it is still used in this sense today as well. When these two characters are combined, they create the word 面积, which literally means "the accumulation of surfaces". This is a fitting name for the concept of area, as area is a measure of the amount of surface that a two-dimensional object occupies.
