IDENTITY
很hěnvery
HSK 1Top 80
CORE MEANING
very
- Part of speech
- adverb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.veryHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 彳step radical (chì)
- strokes
- 9
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰彳艮
- walking
- gives the sound hěn
USAGE
Common words
很好hěn hǎovery good
很多hěn duōa lot
Graded examples
他学习很努力。Tā xuéxí hěn nǔlì.HSK2
He studies very hard.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
LEARNING
Memory aid
Steps (彳) stomping hard (艮) — walking fiercely; very.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #80
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
- Reviewed by
- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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