See also: 句
TranslingualEdit
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EtymologyEdit
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Ideogram (指事) – possibly Simplified from 奇, eliminating 大 and using 可 for sound — compare 無 from 舞.
Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 口 + phonetic 丂
ReferencesEdit
- "可" (in Mandarin), 字源. URL accessed on 2014-02-24.
Han characterEdit
可 (radical 30 口+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 一弓口 (MNR), four-corner 10620, composition ⿹丁口)
Derived charactersEdit
ReferencesEdit
- KangXi: page 172, character 12
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3245
- Dae Jaweon: page 383, character 7
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 567, character 7
- Unihan data for U+53EF
ChineseEdit
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可 | |
PronunciationEdit
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): hak1, ho2
- Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): khó
- Min Dong (BUC): kō̤
- Min Nan (POJ): khuá / khó͘ / khó / khóⁿ
- Wu (WT Romanisation): khu (T2)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄎㄜˇ
- Wade-Giles: k'o3
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kee
- IPA (key): /kʰɤ²¹⁴/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: hak1, ho2
- Yale: hāk, hó
- Cantonese Pinyin: hak7, ho2
- IPA (key): /hɐk̚⁵/, /hɔː³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- Romanisations:
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: khó
- Hagfa Pinyim: ko3
- Romanisations:
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: kō̤
- IPA (key): /kʰo³³/
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- WT Romanisation: khu (T2)
- IPA (key): /kʰɯ³⁴/
- (Shanghainese)
| Middle Chinese pronunciation (可, reconstructed) | ||||||
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| Character (可), Pronunciation 1/1 | ||||||
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Initial: 溪 (29) |
Openness: Open |
Fanqie: 枯我切 | ||||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
Bernard Karlgren |
Li Rong |
Pan Wuyun |
Edwin Pulleyblank |
Wang Li |
Shao Rongfen |
| /kʰɑX/ | /kʰɑX/ | /kʰɑX/ | /kʰɑX/ | /kʰaX/ | /kʰɑX/ | /kʰɑX/ |
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| Character | Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
Middle Chinese | Old Chinese | English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 可 | kě | ‹ khaX › | /*[k]ʰˤa[j]ʔ/ | may; acceptable | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:
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| 可 | 7446 | 可 | 歌 | 1 | 可 | /*kʰaːlʔ/ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DefinitionsEdit
可
- can, may, able to
- (particle used for emphasis)
- to approve, to permit
- to suit
- 可心 ("satisfying")
- to be worth doing
Usage notesEdit
- In compounds, it allow to turn names and verbs into adjectives:
CompoundsEdit
Derived terms
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ReferencesEdit
- (Hakka) Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
- (Hakka) Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.
- (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)
JapaneseEdit
KanjiEdit
可
ReadingsEdit
CompoundsEdit
Compounds of 可
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Uncommon (continued) |
Archaic/Rare
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NounEdit
See alsoEdit
SuffixEdit
KoreanEdit
HanjaEdit
可 (ga, geuk) (hangeul 가, 극, McCune-Reischauer ka, kŭk)
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