几乎
jī hū 1–1
almost; nearly; practically
- Characters
- 2
- 几 · 乎
- Syllables
- 2
- jī hū
- Frequency
- Common
- corpus count 1,001
Part of speech: d
Character by character
- 几jǐ2 strokesHSK 1 traditional 幾small table
- 乎hū5 strokesHSK 3interrogative or exclamatory final particle
Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.
Example sentences
他几乎不来。
Tā jī hū bù lái
He seldom, if ever, comes.
Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.
Words with the same characters
These words share at least one character with 几乎. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.
- 几jǐHSK 1
how much; how many; several; a few
- 似乎sì hūHSK 4
it seems; seemingly; as if
- 在乎zài huHSK 4
to care about; equivalent of 在于
- 不在乎bù zài huHSK 4
not to care
- 几率jī lǜHSK 7
probability; odds
- 合乎hé hūHSK 7
to accord with; to conform to
- 不亦乐乎bù yì lè hūHSK 7
lit. isn't that a joy? (quote from Confucius); fig. (jocular) extremely; awfully
- 寥寥无几liáo liáo wú jǐHSK 7
just a very few (idiom); tiny number; not many at all; You count them on your fingers.