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岂有此理

qǐ yǒu cǐ lǐ

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word Traditional 豈有此理

岂有此理 (qǐ yǒu cǐ lǐ) means "how can this be so? (idiom); preposterous; ridiculous; absurd". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 岂有此理 means

1. how can this be so? (idiom); preposterous
2. ridiculous
3. absurd

The characters in 岂有此理

• 岂qǐhow? (emphatic question)
• 有yǒuto have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意
• 此cǐthis; these
• 理lǐtexture; grain (of wood); inner essence

Where 岂有此理 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · qǐ–qí (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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