可
HSK 5freq #96
Meanings
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- 1.used in 可汗[kè hán]
- 1.(prefix) can; may; able to; -able
- 2.to approve; to permit
- 3.to suit
- 4.(particle used for emphasis) certainly; very
- 5.but; however
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Wiktionary
- 1.can; may; be able to
- 2.to approve; to permit
- 3.to fit; suit
- 4.to be worth doing
- 5.but; however
- 6.A particle.
- 7.Used to form a question.
- 8.Used to form a rhetorical question.
- 9.Used in declarative sentences for emphasis.
- 10.Used in exclamatory sentences for emphasis.
- 11.Used in imperative sentences for emphasis.
- 12.about; around
- 13.to recover completely (from an illness)
- 14.only used in 可汗 (kèhán)
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *kʰaːlʔ): semantic 口 + phonetic 丂 (OC *kʰluːʔ) with a reference to exhaled air. Perhaps its original meaning was "to sing", then 訶 and 哥 (可 written twice). From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-kal ~ *s-gal (“back (lower); kidney; load; carry”) (STEDT). Cognate with 荷 (OC *qʰaːls, *ɡaːl, *ɡaːlʔ, “to carry”). See there for more.
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
可憐!
How unfortunate!
这可真好。
This is quite good.
牛可产奶。
Cows give milk.
我可要哭了。
I think I'm going to cry.
我没书可读。
I have no books to read.
我無家可回。
I have no home to return to.
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
一無可取一无可取一蹴可幾一蹴可几不卜可知不可不可一世不可不不可以不可企及不可偏廢不可偏废不可勝原不可胜原不可勝數不可胜数不可勝書不可胜书不可勝紀不可胜纪不可勝言不可胜言不可勝計不可胜计不可勝記不可胜记不可及不可名字不可名狀不可名状
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