More or less in Chinese
more or less · HSK 6
大致
- 大 big
- 致 to send
我大致看了一下这份报告。 I roughly looked over this report.
Other ways to say more or less
More words with 大 or 致
How do you say more or less in Chinese?
More or less in Chinese is 大致 (dà zhì). You can also say 多少 (duō shǎo).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
Our own dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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