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慷

kāng

HSK 6 Character

What 慷 means

1. used in {慷慨|kāng kǎi}

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 慷

• 慷慨kāng kǎivehement; fervent; generous; magnanimous
• 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 康

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

• 糠kānghusk; (of a radish etc) spongy (and therefore unappetising)
• 槺kāngempty space inside a building

Characters that look like 慷

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

• 赚zhuànto earn; to make a profit
• 催cuīto urge; to press; to prompt
• 豫yùhappy; carefree; at one's ease
• 慑shè(bound form) to fear; to be cowed; (bound form) to frighten; to intimidate; Taiwan pr. zhé
• 猿yuánape
• 慵yōnglethargic

Sounds the same

Read kāng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 康healthy; peaceful; abundant
• 糠husk; (of a radish etc) spongy (and therefore unappetising)
• 闶used in 闶阆; Taiwan pr. kàng
• 槺empty space inside a building
• 𩾌used in 鮟鱇