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慨

kǎi

HSK 6 Character

What 慨 means

1. indignant
2. generous
3. to sigh (with emotion)

Other readings

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

• kǎiold variant of {慨|kǎi}; to sigh (with emotion)

Example sentences

• 大自然很慷慨。
  Dàzìrán hěn kāngkǎi.
  Mother Nature is generous.
• 我很钦佩他的慷慨大方。
  Wǒ hěn qīnpèi tā de kāngkǎi dàfāng.
  I had great admiration for his generosity.
• 在你面前有一百万美金。你可以自己留下或帮一个你不认识的快全身瘫痪的人做手术。他不认识你，你也不认识他。当然，无论你慷慨地把所有的钱都捐给了一个素不相识的人去做手术，还是卑鄙地拿走这笔钱，让那个人今生都只能卧床不起，都不会有人知道。你会怎幺做呢？这笔钱不可割分。
  You've got a million dollars in front of you. You can either spend it for yourself or spend it on a surgery for someone you don't know who is in danger of quadriplegia. You don't know each other. And no one will ever know what a noble deed you've done sacrificing all the money for the surgery for a person you don't know, or how mean you were to take the money confining that person to a wheelchair for the rest of their life. So what would you do? You can't share the money.

Words starting with 慨

• 慨叹kǎi tànto sigh with regret; lament

Words containing 慨

• 感慨gǎn kǎito sigh with sorrow, regret etc; rueful; deeply moved
• 慷慨kāng kǎivehement; fervent; generous; magnanimous
• 愤慨fèn kǎito resent; resentment
• 慷慨激昂kāng kǎi jī ángimpassioned; vehement
• 慷慨解囊kāng kǎi jiě nángto contribute generously (idiom); help sb generously with money…
• 慷慨捐生kāng kǎi juān shēngsacrificing one's life generously (idiom); to sacrifice oneself fervently to the cause
• 慷慨输将kāng kǎi shū jiāngto donate generously (idiom)
• 慷慨赴义kāng kǎi fù yìheroically sacrificing one's life (idiom); to sacrifice oneself fervently to the cause

Characters built on 既

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

• 概gài(bound form) general; approximate; without exception; categorically…
• 溉gàito irrigate

Characters that look like 慨

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

• 概gài(bound form) general; approximate; without exception; categorically…
• 搬bānto move (i.e. relocate oneself); to move (sth relatively heavy or bulky); to shift
• 溉gàito irrigate
• 椭tuǒellipse
• 惬qiè(literary) satisfied; content
• 惋wǎnto sigh in regret or pity; Taiwan pr. wàn

Sounds the same

Read kǎi, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 凯(bound form) triumphal music; (Taiwan; colloquial) generous with money…
• 恺joyful; kind
• 楷model; pattern; regular script (calligraphic style)
• 铠armor
• 锴high quality iron
• 剀used in 剀切
• 垲dry terrain
• 闿to loosen; to open
• 颽balmy; genial as wind
• 岂old variant of 恺; old variant of 凯