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kǎi

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kǎi Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
kǎi | kai3
English translation
to enjoy; kind; joyful, content

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About kǎi

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Number of strokes

9

Traditional form

kǎi

Contains the radical

xīn

Part of speech

Isolated morpheme / 语素 yǔ sù Yǔsù

Learning hint

heart

Etymology of kǎi

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

忄岂

Semantic compound

xīn

Phonetic compound

kǎi

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. xīn represents the meaning and kǎi represents the sound. Simplified form of kǎi .

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Example sentences using kǎi

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zài zhè 最后 zuìhòu tiān , kǎi -亚当 Yà dāng 姆斯-考利 áng 天刚 liàng jiù xǐng le .

On that final day, Kay Adams Corleone woke at dawn.

kǎi biē le 一肚子 yī dù zi 闷气,突然 tūrán Xiàng 爆发 bàofā 出来 chū lái : “ zhè huà 到底 dàodǐ shì 什么 shénme 意思 yìsi ?

Kay blazed out at him. " What the hell does that mean?

duì 克尔 kǎi 郭尔叔本华 Shū běn huá de 深刻 shēnkè 了解 liǎojiě ràng hěn 吃惊 chījīng

He surprised me with his intimate knowledge of Kierkegaard and Schopenhauer.

Words with kǎi

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
kǎi joyful kǎi
恺撒 Kǎi sǎ Caesar (name)愷撒
顾恺之 Gù Kǎi zhī Gu Kaizhi or Ku K'aichih (346-407), famous painter of Eastern Jin dynasty, one of the Four Great Painters of the Six Dynasties 六朝四大家 Liù Cháo Sì Dà jiā 顧愷之

kǎi Decomposition & Compounds

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