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几乎

jī hū

Old HSK 3 HSK 3.0 level 3 2-character word Traditional 幾乎

几乎 (jī hū) means "almost; nearly; practically". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was HSK 3 in the old six-level list.

What 几乎 means

1. almost; nearly; practically

The characters in 几乎

• 几jǐhow many; how much; several; a few
• 乎hū(classical particle similar to 于; at; from

Example sentences

• 他几乎不来。
  He seldom, if ever, comes.
• 他几乎淹死。
  He almost drowned.
• 我几乎赢了。
  I almost won.
• 盒子几乎是空的
  This box is almost empty.
• 我几乎忘记了。
  I almost forgot it.
• 几乎没剩下钱。
  There was scarcely any money left.

Words starting with 几乎

• 几乎不jī hū bùhardly; seems not

Where 几乎 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Stance Adverbs & Evaluative Words (HSK 3), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 3 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read jī hū correctly.
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