 | 岂 | ||
| how? what? | |||
| Radical | 山 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 3 | Total Strokes | 6 |
| Mandarin reading | qǐ kaǐ | Cantonese reading | hei2 |
| Japanese on reading | Japanese kun reading | ||
| Korean reading | Vietnamese reading | ||
| Traditional Variant(s) | 豈 | how? what? | |
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| 岂 | ||
| how? what? | |||
| Radical | 山 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 3 | Total Strokes | 6 |
| Mandarin reading | qǐ kaǐ | Cantonese reading | hei2 |
| Japanese on reading | Japanese kun reading | ||
| Korean reading | Vietnamese reading | ||
| Traditional Variant(s) | 豈 | how? what? | |
| 岂 | [ kaǐ ] old variant of 愷|恺[kai3], old variant of 凱|凯[kai3] |
| 岂 | [ qǐ ] how? (emphatic question) |
| 岂不 | [ qǐ bù ] how couldn't...?, wouldn't it...? |
| 岂敢 | [ qǐ gǎn ] how could one dare?, I don't deserve such praise |
| 岂料 | [ qǐ ] who would have thought that, who would have expected that |
| 岂有此理 | [ qǐ yoǔ cǐ lǐ ] how can this be so? (idiom); preposterous, ridiculous, absurd |
| 岂止 | [ qǐ zhǐ ] not only, far from, more than |
| 岂非 | [ qǐ feī ] wouldn't it be ... ? |