几 Radical 16 — a low table, a bench; in simplified writing also 幾 jǐ "how many, a few"
jī (first tone, high and level)
a low table, a bench; in simplified writing also 幾 jǐ "how many, a few"
Radical 162 strokes0 characters
Also written ⺇ — the same radical in a different position inside the character.
Where the shape comes from
A small table seen from the side: the flat top and the two legs, the right one turned out to hold the weight. It is the stand under 凭 and the frame inside 凡, and the narrowed form ⺇ is the one that shelters 风 and 凤. Simplified writing then loaded the same two strokes with 幾, so 几 is now also the jǐ of 几个 and 几点 — one shape, two unrelated words, told apart by tone and by context.
characters filed under 几
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