十之八九 Save Sign in to save words shízhībājiǔ ㄕˊ ㄓ ㄅㄚ ㄐㄧㄡˇ most likely mostly (in 8 or 9 cases out of 10) vast majority Character by character 十(shí)ten 之(zhī)(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的 de) 八(bā)eight 九(jiǔ)nine A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0