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可惜 kěxī

可惜 kěxī Meaning

Learn the Pinyin Pronunciation and 3 English Translations of the word 可惜 kěxī .

Pīnyīn Pronunciation
kěxī | ke3 xi1
English translation
it is a pity
what a pity
unfortunately

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Traditional form

可惜 kěxī

Part of speech

Verb / 动词 dòng cí Dòngcí
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Etymology of 可惜 kěxī

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Type

pictophonetic

Explanation

The right component is a pictograph of an axe handle, now written as (kē). kǒu (mouth) was added later to indicate that the character is only "mouthed", i.e. only used for its phonetic value.

Phonetic compound

kǒu

Semantic compound

Dīng

Positional decomposition

丁口

Number of Strokes

5

Type

ideographic

Positional decomposition

忄昔

Number of Strokes

11

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Example sentences using 可惜 kěxī

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可惜 kěxī bāng le de máng .

It is to be regretted that I can't help you.

" zhēn shì yǒu 胆量 dǎn liàng de 姑娘 gūniang , " 托尼 shuì , " zhǐ 可惜 kěxī mìng tài le , qiáo 居然 jūrán 牺牲 xīshēng le .

'she's a spunky girl,' said Tony, " and it's rotten luck for her, Joe getting killed.

好好儿 hǎo hāo r Zhī diū le , zhēn 可惜 kěxī !

What a pity to have lost such a nice pen!

帮官老爷 lǎo ye dōu shì jìng Shén de 先生 Xiānsheng , 可惜 kěxī 慈悲 cí bēi xīn tài chóng —— zhè 可是 kěshì zhēn shì , ” ...

" The magistrates are God - fearing gentlemen, but merciful overmuch -- that is a truth, " added a third autumnal matron.

ràng zhè 一切 yīqiè 白白浪费 diào 真是 zhēn shi 可惜 kěxī le

It seemed a pity to let it all go to waste.

可惜 kěxī Decomposition

See the 7 Chinese characters that make up 可惜 kěxī and their own compounds.

可惜 kěxī Compounds

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