很 hěn▶ bastante, muy

Stroke order

很 is written in 9 strokes.

• 很

Senses

1. very; quite
2. (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)

Example sentences

• 今天很热。Jīntiān hěn rè.It is very hot today.
• 这个菜很好。Zhège cài hěn hǎo.This dish is very good.

Related words

• 没no
• 太también

很 is pronounced hěn and means “bastante, muy”. HSK 1 places it in the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, the standardised measure of Chinese proficiency. There is a real difference between having seen 很 and being able to use it, and cramming a list flatters the first while doing little for the second. LexiTrail shows you the word again at the point your recall of it is about to lapse.