Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 豈

Modern (Beijing) reading: qǐ

Preclassic Old Chinese: khǝjʔ

Classic Old Chinese: khǝ́j

Western Han Chinese: khǝ́j

Eastern Han Chinese: khǝ́j

Early Postclassic Chinese: khɨ́j

Middle Postclassic Chinese: khɨ́j

Late Postclassic Chinese: khɨ́j

Middle Chinese: khɨ́j

English meaning : how, why?

Russian meaning[s]: 1) разве...?, неужели...?, как можно чтобы...? (риторический вопрос); 2) служебное слово, подчеркивающее восклицательный характер предложения, см. 其

Comments: Also read *khǝ̄jʔ, MC khл́j (FQ 苦亥), Pek. kǎi 'be joyous'. OC *khǝjʔ 'how, why' is most probably a voiceless correlate of pronouns with *gh- (see 曷, 何).

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 151

Four-angle index: 562

Karlgren code: 0548 a

Shijing occurrences: 17.1

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