qǐ​kě

how can

  • created sense approved 岂可/豈可 · qǐ​kě · how can — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    岂可 / 豈可

    qǐ​kě

    how can

    Used to introduce a rhetorical question to express that something is unacceptable or impossible; meaning "how can one..." or "how could it be allowed to..."

    岂 (literal) → 岂/豈 · qǐ · how 可 (literal) → 可 · kě · can

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense