Character Details
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 可是 | kěshì | kay-sheuh | 3+4 | 可 (mouth + nail) + 以 (person + slash) | 可是 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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Not Yet Developed | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 1] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - I want it, but he doesn't | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Compound Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Structure | Construction | ||||||||||
| left‑right; conjunction | 可 (can) + 是 (sun + correct) | ||||||||||
| Can (可) be so (是) — but. | |||||||||||