Read Edit View history 㕁 què HSK4 (non-classical form of 卻) still Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 却 卻 què variant 㕁 but adverb but; yet; however; expresses a contrast or an unexpected turn in a sentence 人喜欢说，却不喜欢听。 rén xǐhuan shuō, què bù xǐhuan tīng. People like to talk but not listen. 他站了起来，却没有离开。 tā zhàn le qǐlai, què méiyǒu lí kāi. He stood up, but did not leave. [resultative] verbnoun used as a suffix after certain verbs or adjectives to indicate completion or removal, similar to 去 qù or 掉 diào to retreat verb (bound form) to step back; to move backwards; to withdraw just adverb just; exactly; precisely to reject (bound form) to decline; to refuse; to push away to drive back (bound form) to repulse; to force someone to retreat surname a Chinese surname now used in storytelling to transition or introduce a new situation, meaning now or at that time Show rare definitions Hide rare definitions Frequency Movie subtitles 397.8 per million appears in 73% of films Written text 724.3 per million Details HSK 2.0 Level 4HSK 3.0 Level 4 Strokes 8 Unicode U+3541 Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
却 卻 què variant 㕁 but adverb but; yet; however; expresses a contrast or an unexpected turn in a sentence 人喜欢说，却不喜欢听。 rén xǐhuan shuō, què bù xǐhuan tīng. People like to talk but not listen. 他站了起来，却没有离开。 tā zhàn le qǐlai, què méiyǒu lí kāi. He stood up, but did not leave. [resultative] verbnoun used as a suffix after certain verbs or adjectives to indicate completion or removal, similar to 去 qù or 掉 diào to retreat verb (bound form) to step back; to move backwards; to withdraw just adverb just; exactly; precisely to reject (bound form) to decline; to refuse; to push away to drive back (bound form) to repulse; to force someone to retreat surname a Chinese surname now used in storytelling to transition or introduce a new situation, meaning now or at that time Show rare definitions Hide rare definitions