几万

幾萬

jǐwàn

number #18,523

Meanings

1 tens of thousands
2 several tens of thousands

Characters

how many; several

Examples

HSK 2

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.

HSK 3

这座城市有几万人。

Zhè zuò chéngshì yǒu jǐwàn rén.

This city has tens of thousands of people.

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