十有八九
shí yǒu bā jiǔ
Pinyin

Definition

十有八九
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shí yǒu bā jiǔ
  1. most likely
  2. mostly (in 8 or 9 cases out of 10)
  3. vast majority

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

有
yǒu
  1. 1 to have
  2. 2 there is
  3. 3 there are
  4. 4 to exist
  5. 5 to be
没有
méi yǒu
  1. 1 haven't
  2. 2 hasn't
  3. 3 doesn't exist
  4. 4 to not have
  5. 5 to not be
一无所有
yī wú suǒ yǒu
  1. 1 not having anything at all (idiom); utterly lacking
  2. 2 without two sticks to rub together
一言九鼎
yī yán jiǔ dǐng
  1. 1 one word worth nine sacred tripods (idiom); words of enormous weight
三十
sān shí
  1. 1 thirty
  2. 2 30
九
jiǔ
  1. 1 nine
  2. 2 9
乱七八糟
luàn qī bā zāo
  1. 1 everything in disorder (idiom); in a hideous mess
  2. 2 at sixes and sevens
二十
èr shí
  1. 1 twenty
  2. 2 20
二十多
èr shí duō
  1. 1 over 20
五十
wǔ shí
  1. 1 fifty
占有
zhàn yǒu
  1. 1 to have
  2. 2 to own
  3. 3 to hold
  4. 4 to occupy
  5. 5 to possess
  6. 6 to account for (a high proportion etc)
八
bā
  1. 1 eight
  2. 2 8
八十
bā shí
  1. 1 eighty
  2. 2 80
八卦
bā guà
  1. 1 the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经[Yì jīng]
  2. 2 gossip
  3. 3 gossipy
八戒
bā jiè
  1. 1 the eight precepts (Buddhism)
八月
Bā yuè
  1. 1 August
  2. 2 eighth month (of the lunar year)
具有
jù yǒu
  1. 1 to have
  2. 2 to possess
十
shí
  1. 1 ten
  2. 2 10
十一
shí yī
  1. 1 eleven
  2. 2 11
十七
shí qī
  1. 1 seventeen
  2. 2 17

Idioms (20)

一五一十
yī wǔ yī shí
  1. 1 lit. count by fives and tens (idiom); to narrate systematically and in full detail
一传十，十传百
yī chuán shí , shí chuán bǎi
  1. 1 news pass quickly from mouth to mouth (idiom)
  2. 2 an infectious disease spreads quickly (old meaning)
一年被蛇咬十年怕井绳
yī nián bèi shé yǎo shí nián pà jǐng shéng
  1. 1 bitten by a snake in one year, fears the well rope for ten years (idiom); once bitten twice shy
一暴十寒
yī pù shí hán
  1. 1 one day's sun, ten days' frost (idiom, from Mencius); fig. to work for a bit then skimp
  2. 2 sporadic effort
  3. 3 short attention span
一曝十寒
yī pù shí hán
  1. 1 one day's sun, ten days' frost (idiom, from Mencius); fig. to work for a bit then skimp
  2. 2 sporadic effort
  3. 3 lack of sticking power
  4. 4 short attention span
一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井绳
yī zhāo bèi shé yǎo , shí nián pà jǐng shéng
  1. 1 once bitten by a snake, ten years in fear of a well rope
  2. 2 once bitten, twice shy (idiom)
一无所有
yī wú suǒ yǒu
  1. 1 not having anything at all (idiom); utterly lacking
  2. 2 without two sticks to rub together
一目十行
yī mù shí háng
  1. 1 ten lines at a glance (idiom)
  2. 2 to read very rapidly
一言九鼎
yī yán jiǔ dǐng
  1. 1 one word worth nine sacred tripods (idiom); words of enormous weight
七手八脚
qī shǒu bā jiǎo
  1. 1 (idiom) with everyone lending a hand (eagerly but somewhat chaotically)
七扭八歪
qī niǔ bā wāi
  1. 1 misshapen
  2. 2 crooked
  3. 3 uneven (idiom)
七零八落
qī líng bā luò
  1. 1 (idiom) everything broken and in disorder
三七二十一
sān qī èr shí yī
  1. 1 three sevens are twenty-one (idiom)
  2. 2 the facts of the matter
  3. 3 the actual situation
三人行，必有我师
sān rén xíng , bì yǒu wǒ shī
  1. 1 lit. if three walk together, one can be my teacher (idiom, from the Analects of Confucius)
  2. 2 you have sth to learn from everyone
三十而立
sān shí ér lì
  1. 1 thirty years old and therefore independent (idiom, from Confucius)
三旬九食
sān xún jiǔ shí
  1. 1 lit. to have only nine meals in thirty days (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. (of a family) on the brink of starvation
  3. 3 in dire straits
三生有幸
sān shēng yǒu xìng
  1. 1 the blessing of three lifetimes (idiom)
  2. 2 (courteous language) it's my good fortune...
三百六十行
sān bǎi liù shí háng
  1. 1 all walks of life (idiom)
  2. 2 every trade
上有天堂，下有苏杭
shàng yǒu tiān táng , xià yǒu Sū Háng
  1. 1 lit. there is heaven above, and there is 蘇杭|苏杭[Sū Háng] below (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. the beauty and affluence of Suzhou and Hangzhou is comparable with heaven
上有政策，下有对策
shàng yǒu zhèng cè , xià yǒu duì cè
  1. 1 The higher ups have policies while the lower downs have their own ways of getting around them. (idiom)

Sample Sentences

对啊，李安《色戒》里的激情戏，你说是艺术还是低俗？而且所谓的艺术片，十有八九都有这类情节。
duìa ，Lǐ Ān 《sèjiè 》lǐ de jīqíng xì ，nǐ shuō shì yìshù hái shì dīsú ？érqiě suǒwèi de yìshù piān ，shíyǒubājiǔ dōu yǒu zhè lèi qíngjié 。
Yeah, would you say the sexy parts of Li An's ''Lust, Caution" are art or lowbrow smut? And as for so-called art movies, most of them are probably this kind of stuff.
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浓缩的才是精华嘛！对了，有人说在街上看到两个人打架，十有八九是北方人，您觉得呢？
nóngsuō de cáishì jīnghuá ma ！duìle ，yǒu rén shuō zài jiēshang kàndào liǎng ge rén dǎjià ，shíyǒubājiǔ shì běifāngrén ，nín juéde ne ？
Distilled down to the very essence, right? By the way, some people say that if you see two people fighting on the street, eight or nine times out of ten they're northerners. What do you think?
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十有八九也被抓走了。
shíyǒubājiǔ yě bèi zhuāzǒu le 。
In all likelihood, he was carried off by them.
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笨啊，怎么能让她知道呢。她十有八九不会配合我们的。
bèn ā ，zěnme néng ràng tā zhīdào ne 。tā shíyǒubājiǔ búhuì pèihé wǒmen de 。
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