些
xiē
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
An amount left uncounted: some, a few, a little. It usually comes inside 这些 'these', 那些 'those', 哪些 'which ones' and 一些 'some', and no measure word follows it. Right after a verb the 一 of 一些 can drop (买些水果 'buy some fruit'); after an adjective it means 'a bit more': 便宜些 'a bit cheaper'.
Một lượng không đếm cụ thể: một số, một vài, một ít. Thường đi sau 这, 那, 哪, 一: 这些 (những cái này), 那些 (những cái kia), 哪些 (những cái nào), 一些 (một số); phía sau không cần lượng từ. Ngay sau động từ có thể bỏ 一 (买些水果: mua ít hoa quả); sau tính từ thì nghĩa là “hơn một chút” (便宜些: rẻ hơn chút).
ClassifierRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “些” mean?
An amount left uncounted: some, a few, a little. It usually comes inside 这些 'these', 那些 'those', 哪些 'which ones' and 一些 'some', and no measure word follows it. Right after a verb the 一 of 一些 can drop (买些水果 'buy some fruit'); after an adjective it means 'a bit more': 便宜些 'a bit cheaper'.
Is “些” formal or informal?
些 is generally neutral.