十之八九

十之八九 in English

shí zhī bā jiǔ: most likely / mostly (in 8 or 9 cases out of 10) / vast majority

Character breakdown

十 shí ten
之 zhī (possessive particle, literary equivalen…
八 bā eight
九 jiǔ nine

Stroke order

Le caractère 十 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 十

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 之

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

Le caractère 八 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 八

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

Le caractère 九 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 九

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

How it used to be written

十

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 16 forms

之

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 26 forms

八

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 15 forms

九

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 17 forms

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

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