Character Details
| can; may | Ascii: — | w168 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 可 | kě | kuh | 3 | 丁 (nail) + 口 (mouth) → can; may | 可 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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A mouth on the street asking for things: Can I get some help? Can you give me directions? | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 1] - To indicate possibility or potential. | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - Can I leave now? | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
| Strokes | |||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 30 - 口 | kǒu | mouth | mouth | square mouth | 口 吃 和 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 丁 (nail) + 口 (mouth) → can; may | 口 (semantic) | 丁 (phonetic) | phonetic from 丁 | ||||||||