岂能 qǐnéng how could Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 岂能 豈能 qǐnéng 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 zěnnéng Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
岂能 豈能 qǐnéng 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 zěnnéng Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)