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[edit] Translingual

Stroke order
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[edit] Etymology

Ideogram (指事) – possibly Simplified from , eliminating 大 and using 可 for sound — compare from .

[edit] Han character

(radical 30 +2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 一弓口 (MNR), four-corner 10620, composition)

  1. may, can, -able / -ible
  2. possibly

[edit] Derived characters

[edit] References

  • 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

[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

(Yale hak1, ho2)


[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

[edit] Readings

[edit] Compounds

[edit] Noun

(hiragana , romaji ka)

  1. passable

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[edit] Suffix

(hiragana , romaji -ka)

  1. permitted, allowed, licensed

[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

(hangeul , , revised ga, geuk, McCune-Reischauer ka, kŭk)


[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

(pinyin (ke3), Wade-Giles k'o3)

[edit] Adverb

(traditional and simplified, Pinyin )

  1. can, may, able to, to approve, to permit, certainly, to suit, very (particle used for emphasis)

[edit] Compounds


[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

(khả, khá)

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