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kuí

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kuí Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
kuí | kui2
English translation
a man's stride; a constellation

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About kuí

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Number of strokes

9

Traditional form

kuí

Contains the radical

Part of speech

Name of a person / 人名 rén míng Rénmíng

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Etymology of kuí

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

大圭

Semantic compound

Phonetic compound

guī

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and guī represents the sound.

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Example sentences using kuí

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奎瓦 shì zhēng pài rén .

Quiverful is an honorable man.

塞卢奎地区 dìqū de 所有 suǒyǒu qián 沙姆 fán 岩石 yánshí jūn 分布 fēnbù 推覆 de 倒转 dào zhuǎn Zhōng .

All the pre - Shamvaian rocks in the Selukwe area lie on the inverted limb of this fold.

wéi 此行重新 chóngxīn jiǎn 西班牙语 Xī bān yá yǔ lái de 杰奎琳 Jié kuí lín péi 一道 yī dào .

Jacqueline , turning up her Spanish for the occasion, went with him.

kuí tuō 抓住 zhuā zhù de tóu 再次 zài cì .

Kratos bashes the man's head into the book yet again.

梅利莎 xiàng 柠檬 níng méng Shuǐ 一样 yīyàng 大口 dà kǒu de zhāo Jiā 奎宁 kuí níng Shuǐ de 杜松子酒 dù sōng zǐ jiǔ

Melissa had guzzled gin and tonics like they were lemonade.

Words with kuí

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
kuí crotch kuí
杰奎琳 Jié kuí lín Jacqueline (name)傑奎琳
奎宁 kuí níng quinine (loanword)奎寧
奎屯 Kuí tún Kuitun city or Küytun shehiri in Ili Kazakh autonomous prefecture 伊犁哈薩克自治州|伊犁哈萨克自治州 Yī lí Hā sà kè zì zhì zhōu [Yī​lí​Hā​sà​kè​zì​zhì​zhōu], Xinjiang奎屯 Kuí tún
奎屯市 Kuí tún shì Kuitun city or Küytun shehiri in Ili Kazakh autonomous prefecture 伊犁哈薩克自治州|伊犁哈萨克自治州 Yī lí Hā sà kè zì zhì zhōu [Yī​lí​Hā​sà​kè​zì​zhì​zhōu], Xinjiang奎屯市 Kuí tún shì
奎文区 Kuí wén qū Kuiwen district of Weifang city 濰坊市|潍坊市 Wéi fāng shì [Wéi​fāng​shì], Shandong奎文區
望奎县 Wàng kuí xiàn Wangkui county in Suihua 綏化|绥化 Suí huà , Heilongjiang望奎縣

kuí Decomposition & Compounds

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