kāng
ardent
Phonosemantic compound. 忄 represents the meaning and 康 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 慷
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
vehement | ||
generous | ||
to give generously to charity | ||
impassioned | ||
heroically sacrificing one's life (idiom); to sacrifice oneself fervently to the cause |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 6.8877% of movies
2338th most common character in movies
2935th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Unicode | U+6177 |
Sources
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