Character Details
| be sorry/feel apologetic (to) | Ascii: 23401 | w746 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 抱歉 | bàoqiàn | bowe-tchee:en | 4+4 | 抱 (扌 hand radical + 包 wrap) + 抱 (扌 hand radical + 包 wrap) | 抱歉 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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Not Yet Developed | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 2] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - I'd like to help you, but I'm sorry I can't. | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Compound Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Structure | Construction | ||||||||||
| left‑right; adjective | 抱 (hand + wrap) + 歉 (欠 lack + 兼 combine) | ||||||||||
| Hand‑embrace (抱) plus apology (歉) — sorry. | |||||||||||