几 jǐ / jī in a sentence
Few (how many); small table (almost)
几 (jǐ / jī) means Few (how many), small table (almost). Below are 24 of the 34 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
你家有 几 口人？
Nǐ jiā yǒu jǐ kǒu rén?
How many people are there in your family?
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 口
盘子里有 几 个鸡蛋。
Pánzi lǐ yǒu jǐ gè jīdàn.
There are a few eggs on the plate.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 盘子
你的生日是 几 月 几 号？
Nǐ de shēngrì shì jǐ yuè jǐ hào?
What date is your birthday?
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 生日
From the graded readers
街上 几 乎没有人。
jiēshàng jīhū méiyǒu rén.
There was almost nobody about.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Getting Lost
有好 几 次，我差点儿就放弃了。
yǒu hǎojǐ cì, wǒ chā / chà / chāi diǎn ér jiù fàngqìle.
There were several times I nearly gave up.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Changing Jobs
下车的时候，我 几 乎认不出那个地方。
xià chē de / dì shíhou, wǒ jīhū rèn bùchū nèigè dìfang.
Getting off the coach, I could hardly recognise the place.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Going Back Home
我还买了 几 张照片，把它们放在了墙上。
wǒ hái / huán mǎile jǐ / jī zhāng zhàopiàn, bǎ tāmen fàng zài le / liǎo / liào qiáng shàng.
I also bought a few photos and put them on the wall.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · My New Room
现在 几 乎没有人写信了，所以我很吃惊。
xiànzài jīhū méiyǒu rén xiěxìn le / liǎo / liào, suǒyǐ wǒ hěn chījīng.
Almost nobody writes letters now, so I was surprised.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · A Letter From Grandmother
我问她：“阿姨，您住 几 楼？我帮您拿吧。”
wǒ wèn tā:" ā / ē yí, nín zhù jǐ / jī lóu? wǒ bāng nín ná bā."
I asked her, "Which floor are you on? Let me carry those."
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Helping a Stranger
那半年，我 几 乎每天都加班到晚上十点以后。
nà / nèi bàn nián, wǒ jīhū měitiān dōu jiābān dào wǎnshang shí diǎn yǐhòu.
For those six months I worked past ten almost every night.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Facing Pressure
From the travel phrasebook
几 天能发？
Jǐ tiān néng fā?
How many days until it goes out?
Travel phrasebook · Sourcing online (1688 and Alibaba)
末班车 几 点？
Mòbānchē jǐ diǎn?
What time is the last train?
Travel phrasebook · High-speed rail and the metro
From the grammar library
你家有 几 个人？
Nǐ jiā yǒu jǐ ge rén?
How many people are in your family?
Grammar library · HSK 1 · Question words stay in place
几 appears in 34 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Words that contain 几
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 几
How is 几 used in a sentence?
This page shows 34 sentences using 几 (jǐ / jī, "Few (how many), small table (almost)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 几 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 几 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 几 an HSK word?
Yes — 几 is on the official HSK 1 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 1 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 几?
The dictionary page for 几 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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