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几乎 (jī hū): meaning and stroke order

几乎 (jī hū) means almost; nearly; practically.

几乎

Simplified
几乎
Traditional
幾乎
Pinyin
jī hū

Stroke order of 几乎

几

  • jī small table
  • jī almost
  • jǐ how much; how many
  • 2 strokes
  • Traditional form: 幾

Stroke by stroke

乎

  • hū (classical particle similar to 於|于[yu2]) in; at
  • 5 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 几乎

  1. jī hū Traditional 幾乎
    • almost; nearly; practically

Radicals of the characters

几
Radical 几 (Kangxi radical 16) · 2 strokes
乎
Radical 丿 (Kangxi radical 4) · 5 strokes · built from 𠂌 and 丷

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

几乎 in our stories

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  • 袁媛和沈佳从小学起就是最好的朋友，几乎每天都在一起。

    Yuán Yuán hé Shěn Jiā cóng xiǎoxué qǐ jiùshì zuì hǎo de péngyou jīhū měitiān dōu zài yìqǐ

    Yuan Yuan and Shen Jia had been best friends since primary school and spent nearly every day together.

    From the story Twelve hours apart HSK 4

  • 他们的观点几乎完全相反，一见面就要辩论，可谁也离不开谁。

    tāmen de guāndiǎn jīhū wánquán xiāngfǎn yí jiànmiàn jiù yào biànlùn kě shéi yě lí bù kāi shéi

    Their views were almost completely opposite; whenever they met they argued, yet neither could do without the other.

    From the story The happiness of fish HSK 7–9 · Level 8

  • 去年秋天，设计专业毕业的温然来这里当学徒。她手巧，学得快，可心里一直有个疑问：现在有各种胶水，能把裂缝补得几乎看不见，何必还要在瓷器上打钉子呢？

    qùnián qiūtiān shèjì zhuānyè bìyè de Wēn Rán lái zhèli dāng xuétú tā shǒu qiǎo xué de kuài kě xīnli yìzhí yǒu gè yíwèn xiànzài yǒu gèzhǒng jiāoshuǐ néng bǎ lièfèng bǔ de jīhū kàn bú jiàn hébì hái yào zài cíqì shàng dǎ dīngzi ne

    Last autumn Wen Ran, a design graduate, came here as an apprentice. She was deft and learned fast, but one question kept nagging her: glue nowadays can make a crack almost invisible, so why bother putting rivets into porcelain?

    From the story Mending the bowl HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 几乎

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).