glyph origin - What exactly does 几 mean in 凱? Which 几? - Chinese . . . 「几」is a phonetic (not a semantic) component in 「凱」 Rather than asking a question by quoting a statement about a character from some resource and just assuming the statement is true, you should do your own research by decomposing the character into components, then check glyph origins and OC reconstructions of each component, before
Difference between 十几个人 and 几十个人 I read somewhere that in order to express "over a number of things people" we can use this pattern: (multiples of ten)+几+classifier+noun like 十几个人:more than ten people (less than 20) However, somewhere else I came across this pattern 几+十+classifier+noun The sequence of 十 and 几 are exactly reversed in these two patterns