Character Details
| sorry | Ascii: 20107 | w884 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 歉 | qiàn | tchee:en | 4 | 欠 (lack) + 兼 (combine) → apology | 歉 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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If you yawn once during a conversation it's okay, but a double yawn calls for an apology. | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 3] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - I want to apologize to you | - I'd like to help you, but I'm sorry I can't. | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 160 - 月 | yuè | tired | moon, flesh | moon/flesh form | 月 服 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 欠 (lack) + 兼 (combine) → apology | 欠 (semantic) | 兼 (phonetic) | phonetic from 兼 | ||||||||