gāi
should
Simplified form of 該. Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 亥 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
HSK level 2
Appears in 99.6636% of movies
95th most common character in movies
319th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+8BE5 |
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