几万

幾萬

jǐwàn

number #18,523

Meanings

1 tens of thousands
2 several tens of thousands

Characters

how many; several

Examples

这座城市有几万人。

Zhè zuò chéngshì yǒu jǐwàn rén.

This city has tens of thousands of people.

他花了几万块钱买了一辆车。

Tā huā le jǐwàn kuài qián mǎi le yī liàng chē.

He spent tens of thousands of yuan to buy a car.

Tips

grammar

几 + number word = 'several X': 几百 (several hundred), 几千 (several thousand), 几万 (tens of thousands), 几亿 (hundreds of millions). The pattern is very productive.

Stroke Order

几 jǐ

万 wàn