个

counts people and things

No. 14 most used · 0.79% of everyday spoken Chinese: about 1 character in every 126.

How it's built

• 人person
• 丨line

A way to remember it

A person (人) over a single line (丨): one, counted.

Words

• 一个

  yí ge

  a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc)
• 这个

  zhè ge

  (pronoun) this; (adjective) this
• 那个

  nà ge

  that one; that thing; that (as opposed to this)
• 每个

  měi ge

  each; every
• 几个

  jǐ ge

  a few; several; how many
• 整个

  zhěng gè

  whole; entire; total

Sentences

• 一共有十多个学生。

  yí gòng yǒu shí duō gè xué sheng

  There are about ten to twenty students in total.
• 上个月是十一月吗？

  shàng gè yuè shì shí yī yuè ma

  Was last month November?
• 他一个人去了国外。

  tā yí ge rén qù le guó wài

  He has gone abroad by himself.
• 他当时一个人在家。

  tā dāng shí yí ge rén zài jiā

  He was home alone at the time.

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How often characters are written: wordfreq by Robyn Speer, CC BY-SA 4.0, with data from Google Books Ngrams and SUBTLEX by Marc Brysbaert and others. Meanings: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sentences: Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. How often they're said: FrequencyWords and OPUS, from OpenSubtitles.