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岂

qǐ

HSK 6 Character Traditional 豈

What 岂 means

1. how? (emphatic question)

Other readings

岂 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• kǎiold variant of {恺|kǎi}; old variant of {凯|kǎi}

Example sentences

• 每天都这样岂不是很无聊！
  Spending every day like this must be boring!

Words starting with 岂

• 岂有此理qǐ yǒu cǐ lǐhow can this be so? (idiom); preposterous; ridiculous; absurd
• 岂不qǐ bùhow couldn't...?; wouldn't it...?
• 岂止qǐ zhǐnot only; far from; more than
• 岂非qǐ fēiwouldn't it be ... ?
• 岂料qǐ liàowho would have thought that; who would have expected that
• 岂敢qǐ gǎnhow could one dare?; I don't deserve such praise

Characters built on 己

These share the phonetic component 己 (jǐ), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 已yǐalready; to stop; then
• 记jìto record; to note; to memorize
• 纪jìorder; discipline; age
• 忌jìto be jealous of; fear; dread
• 杞qǐChinese wolfberry shrub (Lycium chinense); willow
• 圮pǐdestroyed; injure
• 芑qǐPanicum miliaceum
• 屺qǐ(literary) a barren hill

Characters that look like 岂

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 男nán(bound form) male; baron, the lowest of the five ranks of nobility 五等爵位
• 芭bāan unidentified fragrant plant mentioned in the Songs of Chu 楚辞; used in 芭蕉…
• 邑yìcity; village
• 岌jílofty peak; perilous
• 匣xiábox
• 酉yǒu10th earthly branch: 5-7 p.m., 8th solar month (8th September-7th October), year of the…

Sounds the same

Read qǐ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 起to rise; to raise; to get up
• 企(bound form) to stand on tiptoe and look; to anticipate; to look forward to…
• 启to open; to start; to initiate
• 乞to beg
• 绮beautiful; open-work silk
• 杞Chinese wolfberry shrub (Lycium chinense); willow
• 稽to bow to the ground
• 呇star
• 芑Panicum miliaceum
• 屺(literary) a barren hill
• 綮embroidered banner
• 棨tally for going through a pass