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1 aged thirty (see 三十而立)

1 thirty years old and therefore independent (idiom, from Confucius)

1 thirty

2 30

1 the thirty-two physical characteristics of Buddha

1 thirty percent failure, seventy percent success, the official PRC verdict on Mao Zedong

1 The Thirty-Six Stratagems, a Chinese essay used to illustrate a series of stratagems used in politics, war, and in civil interaction

2 all the possible schemes and stratagems

1 ratio seventy to thirty

2 thirty percent failure, seventy percent success

1 thirty six initial consonants of Song phonetic theory

1 lit. to have only nine meals in thirty days (idiom)

2 fig. (of a family) on the brink of starvation

3 in dire straits

1 thirty-first year A7 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1954 or 2014

1 the river flows thirty years to the East, thirty years to the West (proverb)

2 change is the only constant

1 thirty-second year B8 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1955 or 2015

1 thirty-sixth year F12 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1959 or 2019

1 thirty-eighth year H2 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1961 or 2021

2 cf 辛丑條約|辛丑条约, Protocol of Beijing of 1901 ending the 8-nation intervention after the Boxer uprising

1 thirty-third year C9 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1956 or 2016

1 Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the thirty-fifth president of Brazil

2 Lula

1 thirty-fourth year D10 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1957 or 2017

1 thirty-ninth year I3 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1962 or 2022

1 thirty-fifth year Ē1 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1958 or 2018