Character Details
| should; ought | Ascii: 35201 | w461 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 该 | gāi | gye | 1 | 讠 (speech) + 亥 (twelfth branch) → should | 该 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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This teacher throws acorns at the students when they are throwing words around talking. “You should pay attention!” | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 2] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - Wake up! | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 149 - 虍 | hū | horn | tiger stripes | tiger‑stripe pattern | 虎 虎 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 讠 (speech) + 亥 (twelfth branch) → should | 讠 (semantic) | 亥 (phonetic) | phonetic from 亥 | ||||||||
