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慷慨

kāng kǎi

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

慷慨 (kāng kǎi) means "vehement; fervent; generous; magnanimous". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 慷慨 means

1. vehement; fervent
2. generous; magnanimous

The characters in 慷慨

• 慷kāngused in 慷慨
• 慨kǎiindignant; generous; 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 慷慨

• 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

Where 慷慨 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · gāng–kě (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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