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岂能
qǐ​néng

how could

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
岂能 豈能 qǐ​néng
how could
(literary) how could one; how is it possible that; used in rhetorical questions to express that something is impossible or should not be done

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.180 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
3.92 per million

Cross-References

Same as

  • 怎能 zěn​néng

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)