若干
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Pronunciation
Peng'im: riag8 gang1
POJ: jia̍k-kang
Variety: chaozhou
POJ: jia̍k-kang
Variety: chaozhou
Pronunciation note: Realised [dz] ~ [z] ~ [l] depending on speaker and register; many younger speakers merge it with /l/. The cited sources corroborate [dz], relaxing to [z] for younger/overseas speakers; neither attests the further merger to /l/.
Meanings and usage
numeral: several; a few; a certain number/amount of, how many (literary)
若干
若干
Page splits this into an adverb sense ('how many', literary) and a determiner sense ('several/a few', formal); there is no exact determiner POS in our list, so it was mapped to numeral.