Kilo Lingo

几

jǐ

Traditional: 几

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Translation

how many, a few, several

Stroke order

Stroke order for 几

几

Examples

？

How many siblings do you have?

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I almost forgot it was your birthday.

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He came back a few days ago.

？

How many books did you buy?

桌zhuō摆bǎi笔bǐ。

There are several pens on the table.

几 (jǐ) asks 'how many?' for small numbers and also means 'a few', depending on whether the sentence is a question. It reads jī in 几乎 (almost), where the tone shifts with the meaning.

Related words

几乎

almost, nearly, practically

几个

a few, several, how many (with ge)

几天

a few days, several days

Appears in 3 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 几.

几个jǐ gèa few, several, how many (with ge)几乎jī hūalmost, nearly, practically几天jǐ tiāna few days, several days

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This word is part of lesson 102.