幾多

See also: 几多

Chinese

	how much; how many; several how much; how many; several; a few; almost	many; much; a lot of many; much; a lot of; numerous; multi-
trad. (幾多)	幾	多
simp. (几多)	几	多
variant forms	一多 (it-tô) S. Sixian Hakka

Mandarin
(Pinyin): jǐduō

(Zhuyin): ㄐㄧˇ ㄉㄨㄛ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gei² do¹
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): kí-tô / kit-tô / it-tô

(Meixian, Guangdong): gi³ do¹ / gid⁵ do¹
Min Bei (KCR): gǐ-duói

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: jǐduō
  - Zhuyin: ㄐㄧˇ ㄉㄨㄛ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiiduo
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ tu̯ɔ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: gei² do¹
  - Yale: géi dō
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gei² do¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: géi² do¹
  - IPA ^(key): /kei̯³⁵ tɔː⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kí-tô / kit-tô
  - Hakka Romanization System: gi` do´ / gid` do´
  - Hagfa Pinyim: gi³ do¹ / gid⁵ do¹
  - IPA: /ki³¹ to²⁴/, /kit̚² to²⁴/
- (Southern Sixian, incl. Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kí-tô / kit-tô / it-tô
  - Hakka Romanization System: gi` do´ / gid` do´ / id` do´
  - Hagfa Pinyim: gi³ do¹ / gid⁵ do¹ / id⁵ do¹
  - IPA: /ki³¹ to²⁴/, /kit̚² to²⁴/, /it̚² to²⁴/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: gi³ do¹ / gid⁵ do¹
  - IPA: /ci³¹ to⁴⁴/, /cit̚¹ to⁴⁴/
Min Bei
- (Jian'ou)
  - Kienning Colloquial Romanized: gǐ-duói
  - IPA ^(key): /ki²¹ tuɛ⁵⁴/

幾多

(literary or Cantonese, Hakka, Min Bei) how many; how much
佢幾多歲你都唔知？ [Cantonese, trad.]
佢几多岁你都唔知？ [Cantonese, simp.]
Keoi⁵ gei² do¹ seoi³ nei⁵ dou¹ m⁴ zi¹? [Jyutping]
You don't even know how old [literally "how many years old"] he is?

幾多錢？ / 几多钱？ [Cantonese] ― Gei² do¹ cin^4-2? [Jyutping] ― How much does it cost?
- 問君能有幾多愁，恰似一江春水向東流。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
  问君能有几多愁，恰似一江春水向东流。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: 李煜, 《虞美人·春花秋月何時了》
  Wèn jūn néng yǒu jǐduō chóu, qiàsì yī jiāng chūnshuǐ xiàng dōng liú. [Pinyin]
  If you ask me how much sorrow I have, it's just like this endless river of spring water flowing east.
(Cantonese) a lot; so much
望下嗰便，有幾多魚！ [Cantonese, trad.]
望下𠮶便，有几多鱼！ [Cantonese, simp.]
Mong⁶ haa⁵ go² bin⁶, jau⁵ gei² do¹ jyu⁴! [Jyutping]
Look over there, there's so much fish!

Dialectal synonyms of 多少 (“how many; how much”) [map]
Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		幾多
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		多少
Mandarin	Beijing	多少
	Taiwan	多少
	Jinan	多少
	Xi'an	多少
	Wuhan	幾多, 好多
	Chengdu	好多
	Yangzhou	多少
	Hefei	好些, 好多
Cantonese	Guangzhou	幾多, 幾
	Hong Kong	幾多, 幾
	Taishan	幾多
	Yangjiang	幾多, 幾
Gan	Nanchang	幾多
Hakka	Meixian	幾多
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	幾多
	Liudui (S. Sixian)	幾多
	Hsinchu (Hailu)	幾多
	Dongshi (Dabu)	幾多
	Hsinchu (Raoping)	幾多
	Yunlin (Zhao'an)	幾多
Jin	Taiyuan	多少
Min Bei	Jian'ou	幾多
Min Dong	Fuzhou	若夥
Min Nan	Xiamen	偌濟
	Quanzhou	偌濟
	Zhangzhou	偌濟
	Taipei	偌濟
	Kaohsiung	偌濟
	Penang	幾
	Philippines (Manila)	偌濟
	Chaozhou	若濟
Wu	Shanghai	多少, 幾化, 幾多化 dated
	Suzhou	幾化
	Wenzhou	幾倈兒, 幾倈
Xiang	Changsha	好多
Xiang	Shuangfeng	好多, 幾多

Literal reading of 幾多 (いくそばく) (ikusobaku).

幾多 (hiragana いくた, rōmaji ikuta)

many, much
幾 (いく)多 (た)の困 (こん)難 (なん)を乗 (の)り越 (こ)えなければならない。
Ikuta no konnan o norikoenakereba naranai.
We must overcome lots of difficulties.

1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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