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Jyutping cin4 gei2 tin1
Pinyin qián jǐ tiān

Definitions (CC-CEDICT)
  1. a few days ago
  2. a few days before
  3. the past few days
  4. the previous few days
Definitions (Wiktionary)
  1. adv
    the past few days
  2. adv
    the other day; a couple of days ago
Examples (Tatoeba—Mandarin-English)
  1. Mandarin
    前几天我见到了她。
    前幾天我見到了她。
    qián jǐ tiān wǒ jiàn dào liǎo tā 。
    • I saw her just the other day.
  2. Mandarin
    前几天,东京郊外发生了件可怕的事情。
    前幾天,東京郊外發生了件可怕的事情。
    qián jǐ tiān , dōng jīng jiāo wài fā shēng le jiàn kě pà de shì qing 。
    • The other day something horrible happened in a Tokyo suburb.
  3. Mandarin
    我前几天遇见了他。
    我前幾天遇見了他。
    wǒ qián jǐ tiān yù jiàn le tā 。
    • I met him the other day.
  4. Mandarin
    我前几天收到了你的传真。
    我前幾天收到了你的傳真。
    wǒ qián jǐ tiān shōu dào le nǐ de chuán zhēn 。
    • I got your fax the other day.
  5. Mandarin
    前几天我遇到了珍。
    前幾天我遇到了珍。
    qián jǐ tiān wǒ yù dào le zhēn 。
    • I met Jane the other day.
Examples (Wiktionary)
  1. Mandarin
    前几天
    前幾天
    qián jǐ tiān
    • the other day
  2. Mandarin
    我们前几天的工夫算是白花。
    我們前幾天的工夫算是白花。
    wǒ men qián jǐ tiān de gōng fu suàn shì bái huā .
    • All the work I've put in on her for the past few days has just been wasted.
  3. Mandarin
    于3月10日(周二),雅加达北区警长Budhi Hardi Susianto在北区警署的一项仪式上,向该区Teluk Gong的Erwin杂货店店主魏美英(Susanna Indriyani,57岁)颁发奖状,以表彰她在前几天政府公布国内正式出现两宗感染新冠状肺炎后引发民众抢购狂,她断然拒绝顾客大量购买,一时化解了居民恐慌之善举。
    於3月10日(週二),雅加達北區警長Budhi Hardi Susianto在北區警署的一項儀式上,向該區Teluk Gong的Erwin雜貨店店主魏美英(Susanna Indriyani,57歲)頒發獎狀,以表彰她在前幾天政府公佈國內正式出現兩宗感染新冠狀肺炎後引發民眾搶購狂,她斷然拒絕顧客大量購買,一時化解了居民恐慌之善舉。
    yú 3 yuè 10 rì ( zhōu èr ) , yǎ jiā dá běi qū jǐng cháng Budhi ha r5 di Susianto zài běi qū jǐng shǔ de yī xiàng yí shì shàng , xiàng gāi qū Teluk gong de Erwin zá huò diàn diàn zhǔ wèi měi yīng ( su san na Indriyani , 57 suì ) bān fā jiǎng zhuàng , yǐ biǎo zhāng tā zài qián jǐ tiān zhèng fǔ gōng bù guó nèi zhèng shì chū xiàn liǎng zōng gǎn rǎn xīn guān zhuàng fèi yán hòu yǐn fā mín zhòng qiǎng gòu kuáng , tā duàn rán jù jué gù kè dà liàng gòu mǎi , yī shí huà jiě le jū mín kǒng huāng zhī shàn jǔ .
    • On March 10, in a ceremony at the North Jakarta police station, North Jakarta police officer Budhi Hardi Susianto issued an award to Susanna Indriyani (57 years), the shopkeeper of the Erwin grocery store in Teluk Gong in the city, to commend her for her great act of dispelling the residents' fears by refusing to allow customers to purchase in bulk a few days ago, when a buying frenzy was caused after the government announced that there were two official cases of COVID-19 infection in the country.