很

很 in English

hěn adverb HSK 1: very / quite / (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)

Stroke order

Le caractère 很 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 很

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

Warring States script 戰國.秦
Small seal script

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

很多人学日语是为了看漫画。

Many people study Japanese so they can read manga.
“你怎么样？”“我很好，谢谢。”

"How are you?" "I am fine, thank you."
“她很年轻吗？”“是的。”

"Is she young?" "Yes."
“洞里发生了什么？我很好奇。”“我一点也不知道。”

"What's going on in the cave? I'm curious." "I have no idea."
“这看上去很有意思。”Hiroshi说道。

"This looks pretty interesting," Hiroshi says.
5加10很简单。

It is easy to add 5 to 10.
Bill的朋友很多。

Bill has many friends.
Davis先生看上去很累。

Mr Davis looks very tired.

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