几十万

幾十萬

jǐshíwàn

number #19,307

Meanings

1 hundreds of thousands
2 several hundred thousand

Characters

several; how many

Examples

这座城市有几十万人口。

Zhè zuò chéngshì yǒu jǐshíwàn rénkǒu.

This city has a population of several hundred thousand.

他花了几十万买了一辆车。

Tā huā le jǐshíwàn mǎi le yī liàng chē.

He spent several hundred thousand to buy a car.

Tips

grammar

几 here means 'several/some' (an indefinite small number). The pattern 几+X+万 gives approximate large quantities: 几万 (tens of thousands), 几十万 (hundreds of thousands), 几百万 (millions).

Stroke Order

几 jǐ

十 shí

万 wàn