Chinese Character Wiki
几

jī, jǐ

small table

Pictograph of a small table. In simplified Chinese 几 is also used to mean "how much", while in traditional Chinese this meaning is written with a separate character 幾.

Evolution

几 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
几 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
几 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

几  

jī

small table

几 (幾) 

jǐ

how many? how much?; a few, some; how much; how many; several; a few

几 (幾) 

jī

almost

Most common words with 几
Freq.
Word
Meaning

几

how much

几乎

almost

几个

a few

好几

several

十几

more than ten

Component uses

Meaning component in 7 characters (2 verified)

壳 殼 凭 凰 秃 凳 冗

Sound component in 13 characters (3 verified)

机 凯 凱 肌 玑 飢 饥 讥 叽 矶 麂 虮 処

Simplified component in 1 character (1 verified)

机

Unknown component in 4 characters (0 verified)

沿 凫 鳧 溦

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*C.kr[ə]jʔ

kijX

jǐ

stool


Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 93.7049% of movies

269th most common character in movies

211th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

2

Traditional

幾

Unicode

U+51E0

Shuowen

“几，踞几也。象形。”


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