qǐ, kǎi
victorious music, happy
Pictograph of a drum standing upright with a decoration at top, similar to 壴. Refers to celebratory music played after victory in battle.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 豈
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
how? (emphatic question) | ||
how couldn't...? | ||
not only | ||
wouldn't it be ... ? | ||
ridiculous |
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.qʰˤəjʔ | khojX | kǎi | happy, pleasant |
*C.qʰəjʔ | khj+jX | qǐ | how |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.2585% of movies
2974th most common character in movies
1726th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8C48 |
Shuowen | “豈，還師振旅樂也。一曰欲也，登也。从豆，微省聲。” |
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