HSK 3 · Time

几乎 jīhū “almost” in Chinese

Traditional 幾乎

What 几乎 means

  1. almost
  2. nearly
  3. practically

How to say 几乎

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale几jī1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale乎hū1st tone, high and level

几乎 in a sentence

  1. 年轻人几乎都有手机。

    Niánqīngrén jīhū dōu yǒu shǒujī.

    Almost all young people have mobile phones.

    Sentence #1148299 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 现在我几乎不看电视。

    Xiànzài wǒ jīhū bú kàn diànshì.

    I almost never watch TV nowadays.

    Sentence #7785257 from Tatoeba

  3. 盒子几乎是空的。

    Hézi jīhū shì kōng de.

    The box is almost empty.

    Sentence #335903 from Tatoeba

How 几乎 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 几 (jǐ) with each of its parts in a different colour
几jīsmall table
  • 丿slash · piě
  • 乙second (cyclical) · yǐ
The character 乎 (hū) drawn as one shape
乎hūin

乎 is a single shape of 5 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

How to write 几乎

几 2 strokes · 乎 5 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

几乎 (jīhū) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 几乎 (jīhū). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 几乎

Words with 几

几jǐ · how many (small)

Words with 乎

在乎zàihu · to care about似乎sìhū · it seems

More words: Time

当然dāngrán · of course冬dōng · winter刚才gāngcái · just now后来hòulái · afterwards季节jìjié · season经常jīngcháng · often久jiǔ · long time马上mǎshàng · at once

FAQs

几乎 (jīhū) means “almost” or “nearly”. It is an HSK 3 word.
Say it jīhū: jī with a 1st tone, then hū with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 几乎 is written 幾乎. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type jihu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 几乎 from the suggestions. Typing jihu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
几乎 is an HSK 3 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.