差点儿
chà​diǎn'ér HSK5

almost

差点儿 (差點兒) chà​diǎn'ér
almost numeral
adverb used to indicate that something almost happened (often used for negative outcomes).

这次测试太难了，我差点儿没及格。

zhè cì cè​shì tài nán le, wǒ chà​diǎn'ér méi jí​gé.

The test was so difficult that I almost failed.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
4.89 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
1.13 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 5

Cross-References

Erhua variant of

Sources
Definitions
AI-generated definitions
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)