HSK 6 · Function Words

若干 ruògān “a certain number” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 若干 means

  1. a certain number
  2. some
  3. several
  4. a certain number or amount
  5. how many?
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • how much?

How to say 若干

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale若ruò4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale干gān1st tone, high and level

若干 in a sentence

  1. 他提出了若干个问题。

    Tā tíchū le ruògān ge wèntí.

    He raised a number of questions.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 这个问题我们讨论了若干次。

    Zhè ge wèntí wǒmen tǎolùn le ruògān cì.

    We’ve discussed this question several times.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 若干 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 若 (ruò) with each of its parts in a different colour
若ruòto seem
  • 艹grass form of 艸 · cǎo
  • 右right · yòu
The character 干 (gān) with each of its parts in a different colour
干gāndry
  • 一one · yī
  • 十ten · shí

Memory aidDrawn from a forked stick used as a weapon or shield. As a simplified character it also stands for 乾 “dry” and 幹 “to do”.

How to write 若干

若 8 strokes · 干 3 strokes

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

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

Words related to 若干

Words with 若

倘若tǎngruò · if

Words with 干

干净gānjìng · clean干gān · dry饼干bǐnggān · biscuit干杯gānbēi · to drink a toast干燥gānzào · dry (weather干脆gāncuì · simply能干nénggàn · capable干活儿gànhuór · to work干扰gānrǎo · to disturb干涉gānshè · to interfere

More words: Function Words & Grammar

仍旧réngjiù · still人家rénjia · other people任意rènyì · at will日益rìyì · increasingly啥shá · what (informal)尚且shàngqiě · even势必shìbì · bound to束shù · bunch

FAQs

若干 (ruògān) means “a certain number” or “some”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it ruògān: ruò with a 4th tone, then gān with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 若干 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type ruogan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 若干 from the suggestions. Typing ruogan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
若干 is an HSK 6 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 written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.