幾
See also: 几
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Translingual
Han character
幾 (radical 52, 幺+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女戈竹戈 (VIHI), four-corner 22253, composition ⿻⿻𢆶戈人(G) or ⿹⿻𢆶戈人(HTJK))
Descendants
- き (Hiragana character derived from Man'yōgana)
- キ (Katakana character derived from Man'yōgana)
- 𛀤
- 𛀥
Related characters
- 几 (In simplified Chinese)
Usage notes
In standards of Hong Kong, Japan and Taiwan, the 人 component in the lower left of 幾 touches but does not cross the horizontal stroke in the 戈 component. In standard of Mainland China, the top of the 人 component crosses over the horizontal stroke in the 戈 component.
References
- KangXi: page 342, character 14
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9208
- Dae Jaweon: page 652, character 3
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1095, character 8
- Unihan data for U+5E7E
Chinese
| trad. | 幾 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 几* | |
| variant forms | 㡬 𢆻 𢆼 | |
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (幾) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 機 | *kɯl |
| 譏 | *kɯl |
| 嘰 | *kɯl |
| 磯 | *kɯl |
| 鞿 | *kɯl |
| 饑 | *kɯl |
| 禨 | *kɯl, *kɯls |
| 幾 | *kɯl, *kɯlʔ, *ɡɯl, *ɡɯls |
| 鐖 | *kɯl |
| 僟 | *kɯl |
| 璣 | *kɯl |
| 蟣 | *kɯlʔ, *ɡɯl |
| 穖 | *kɯlʔ |
| 畿 | *ɡɯl |
Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 𢆶 (“silk threads; little things”) + 戍 (“to guard against”) – watching over the fine details.
Note that the simplified form 几 (OC *krilʔ, “small table”) is also a traditional character on its own.
Pronunciation 1
Definitions
幾
- how much; how many
- (of number, time, date) what; which
- a few; some; several
- (of numeral amounts) some; something; odd
- (Cantonese) quite; rather; really; very; pretty
- 嗰時我媽媽就要一支支噉啲衣裳竹呢，就掛住啲衫要用佢插落去。幾辛苦㗎，有事會跌啲竹落街㗎。 [Cantonese, trad.]
- From:
- Go2 si4 ngo5 maa1-4 maa1 zau6 jiu3 jat1 zi1 zi1 gam2 di1 ji1 soeng4 zuk1 ne1, zau6 gwaa3 zyu6 di1 saam1 jiu3 jung6 keoi5 caap3 lok6 heoi3. Gei2 san1 fu2 gaa3, jau5 si6 wui5 dit3 di1 zuk1 lok6 gaai1 gaa3. [Jyutping]
- My mother used to take bamboo poles like those, hang clothes on them and poke them down. It was rather difficult, and sometimes they would fall into the street.
𠮶时我妈妈就要一支支噉啲衣裳竹呢，就挂住啲衫要用佢插落去。几辛苦㗎，有事会跌啲竹落街㗎。 [Cantonese, simp.]
Descendants
- → Thai: กี่ (gìi, “how many; how much”)
Compounds
Derived terms from 幾
Pronunciation 2
Definitions
幾
Compounds
Derived terms from 幾
Pronunciation 3
Pronunciation 4
Definitions
幾
Further reading
- “Entry #8349”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.
Japanese
Readings
Compounds
- 幾程 (ikuhodo, “how many, how much”)
- 幾つ (ikutsu, “how old”)
- 幾ら (ikura, “how many”)
- 幾人 (ikunin), 幾人 (ikutaru, “number of people”)
- 幾何 (kika), 幾何 (ikubaku, “geometry”)
- 幾何学 (kikagaku, “geometry (study of)”)
- 幾夜 (ikuyo, “number of nights”)
- 幾夜も (ikuyo mo, “for several nights”)
- 幾分 (ikubun, “partially”)
- 幾千 (ikusen, “thousands”)
- 幾日 (ikunichi, “how many days”)
- 幾日も (ikunichi mo, “for some days”)
- 幾度 (ikudo), 幾度 (ikutabi, “how often”)
- 幾度も (ikudo mo, “frequently”)
- 幾許 (ikubaku, “how much”)
- 幾許も無く (ikubaku mo naku, “before long”)
Prefix
幾 (hiragana いく, rōmaji iku-)
- how many, how much
- 幾箱要りますか。
- Iku-hako irimasu ka.
- How many boxes do you want?
- 幾箱要りますか。
- some, several, having an indefinite number or quantity
- 幾千と云う人
- iku-sen to iu hito
- several thousand people
- 幾千と云う人
- some, many, having a considerable number
- 幾日も行っていた。
- Iku-nichi mo itte ita.
- I was gone for many days.
- 幾日も行っていた。
Korean
Hanja
幾 • (gi) (hangeul 기)
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Vietnamese
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