些 - xiē - Chinese character definition, English meaning and stroke order

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HSK 1 - Easy
8 strokes
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些

xiē

Definition

few
我買了些蘋果。

I bought a few apples
some
several (measure word for small numbers and amounts)
a little more
a little
somewhat
rather

Character Decomposition

Related words (16)

些許

xiē xǔ

a few; a little; a bit

一些

yī xiē

some; a few; a little; a number (of); several; certain; small amount (of)

前些

qián xiē

earlier; a few (days) ago; a few (years) ago (etc)

哪些

nǎ xiē

which ones; who; what

好些

hǎo xiē

a good deal of; quite a lot

a bit earlier

some; somewhat

some; certain (things)

these

those; those ones

narrowly; almost; nearly

a bit bigger

somewhat; rather; some

some people

these

somewhat; more or less

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