可
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(prefix) can; may; able to; -able; to approve; to permit; to suit; (particle used for emphasis) certainly; very; but; however
5 strokes
Dict coverage rank #128 U+53EF
How 可 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
丁 (semantic, “vigorous”) + 口 (phonetic, kǒu)
How to remember it
can · Heisig RSH #92
spike + 口 mouth
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 口
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 口 (kǒu) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 口 sound component | kǒu | mouth; entrance, gate, opening |
| 扣 | kòu | to detain; to knock, to tap; button |
| 否 | fǒu | no, not, un-; final particle |
| 叩 | kòu | to ask; to bow, to kowtow; to knock |
Words containing 可
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 无可无不可 | wú kě wú bù kě | neither for nor against sth; indifferent |
| 可行性 | kě xíng xìng | feasibility |
| 不可 | bù kě | cannot; should not; must not |
| 可不 | kě bu | see 可不是[ke3 bu5 shi4] |
| 可人 | kě rén | pleasant; agreeable; a person after one's heart (charming person); a gifted person |
| 不可数 | bù kě shǔ | uncountable |
| 可心 | kě xīn | satisfying; to one's liking; to suit sb |
| 可儿 | kě ér | a person after one's heart (charming person); capable person |
| 无可 | wú kě | can't |
| 小可 | xiǎo kě | small; unimportant; (polite) my humble person |
| 可有可无 | kě yǒu kě wú | not essential; dispensable |
| 可动 | kě dòng | movable |
| 不可一世 | bù kě yī shì | (idiom) to consider oneself unexcelled in the world; to be insufferably arrogant |
| 可行 | kě xíng | feasible |
| 安可 | ān kě | encore (loanword) |
| 可气 | kě qì | annoying; irritating; exasperating |
| 不可多得 | bù kě duō dé | hard to come by; rare |
| 不可开交 | bù kě kāi jiāo | to be awfully (busy etc) |
| 可分 | kě fēn | can be divided (into parts); one can distinguish (several types) |
| 可体 | kě tǐ | well-fitting (of clothes) |