些
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classifier indicating a small amount or small number greater than 1: some, a few, several
- HSK 3.0
- Level 1
- Old HSK
- Level 1
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 二 +5
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 些
- Common rank
- #2,566
- Unicode
- U+4E9B
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 些
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 一些 | some; a few; a little; (following an adjective) slightly ...er | |
| 有些 | some; somewhat; rather; a bit | |
| 那些 | those | |
| 这些 | these | |
| 哪些 | which ones?; who?; what? | |
| 多少有些 | somewhat; more or less | |
| 大一些 | a bit bigger | |
| 有些人 | some people | |
| 有一些 | somewhat; rather; some | |
| 前些 | a few (days, years etc) ago | |
| 好些 | a good deal of; quite a lot | |
| 些微 | slight; minor; small; slightly | |
| 这些个 | these | |
| 早些 | a bit earlier | |
| 险些 | narrowly; almost; nearly | |
| 些许 | a few; a little; a bit | |
| 某些 | some; certain (things) |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 此 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 此 sound part | this, these; in this case, then | |
| 紫 | purple, violet; amethyst; surname | |
| 柴 | firewood, faggots, fuel; surname | |
| 雌 | female; feminine; gentle, soft | |
| 眦 | eye socket; the corner of the eye | |
| 赀 | wealth, property; to estimate, to count | |
| 呲 | to grimace; to bare one's teeth | |
| 疵 | flaw, fault, defect; disease | |
| 觜 | beak | |
| 訾 | to criticize, to bad-mouth; defect; betrayal | |
| 龇 | to bare one's teeth; crooked teeth | |
| 茈 | a plant yielding a red dye | |
| 髭 | mustache |