小数点

Japanese

Kanji in this term
小	数	点

Etymology

From 小数 (shōsū, "decimal") + 点 (ten, "point," "dot")

Noun

小数点 (hiragana しょうすうてん, romaji shōsūten)

1. decimal point, radix point

Alternative forms

• 少数点

Compounds

• 浮動小数点 (fudō shōsūten): floating point representation
• 浮動小数点演算機構 (fudō shōsūten enzan kikō): floating-point arithmetic unit

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Mandarin

simpl.		小数点
trad.		小數點

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ ɕiau˨˩ʂu˥˩tiɛn˨˩˦ ]

Noun

小数点 (simplified, Pinyin xiǎoshùdiǎn, traditional 小數點)

1. (Advanced Mandarin) decimal point

References

• 1985, Jingrong (ed.) Wu, The Pinyin CHINESE-ENGLISH DICTIONARY (in Mandarin/English), Beijing, Hong Kong: The Commercial Press, ISBN 0471867969:
• 2000, Jingmin (ed.) Shao, HSK Dictionary (HSK汉语水平考试词典) (in Mandarin/English), Shanghai: Huadong Teachers College Publishers, ISBN 7561720785: