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Mythic Mandarin

可以 (kě yǐ): meaning and stroke order

可以 (kě yǐ) means can, may, possible, able to, not bad, pretty good.

可以

Simplified
可以
Traditional
可以 (same form)
Pinyin
kě yǐ

Stroke order of 可以

可

  • kě (prefix) can; may; able to; -able; to approve; to permit
  • kè used in 可汗[ke4 han2]
  • 5 strokes

Stroke by stroke

以

  • yǐ old variant of 以[yi3]
  • yǐ old variant of 以[yi3]
  • Yǐ abbr. for Israel 以色列[Yi3 se4 lie4]
  • 4 strokes
  • Traditional form: 㕥

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 可以

  1. kě yǐ
    • can
    • may
    • possible
    • able to
    • not bad
    • pretty good

Radicals of the characters

可
Radical 口 (Kangxi radical 30) · 5 strokes · built from 丁 and 口
以
Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 5 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

可以 in our stories

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  • “还有一个大房间，一个晚上五百块，可以吗？”

    háiyǒu yí gè dà fángjiān yí gè wǎnshang wǔbǎi kuài kěyǐ ma

    "There's still one big room, five hundred yuan a night. Is that all right?"

    From the story Next Friday HSK 2

  • 没想到何芳高兴地说：“太好了！我也打鼓，正好可以找个朋友一起练！”

    méi xiǎngdào Hé Fāng gāoxìng de shuō tài hǎo le wǒ yě dǎ gǔ zhènghǎo kěyǐ zhǎo gè péngyou yìqǐ liàn

    To the landlord's surprise, He Fang says happily, "Great! I play the drums too. Now I'll have someone to practise with!"

    From the story The cheap room HSK 3

  • 第二天，罗丹接到了公司的电话：她可以下个星期来上班了。

    dì-èr tiān Luó Dān jiē dào le gōngsī de diànhuà tā kěyǐ xià gè xīngqī lái shàngbān le

    The next day Luo Dan gets a call from the company: she can start work next week.

    From the story The honest answer HSK 3

Stories using 可以

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).