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

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

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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