Kilo Lingo

该

gāi

Traditional: 該

HSK 4
#761 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

should, ought to

Stroke order

Stroke order for 该

该

Examples

。

You should go to sleep.

？

What should I do?

。

It is your turn.

。

You ought to take a rest now.

辦bàn?

What should we do?

該 (gāi) means should, ought to. It is used as a verb in everyday Mandarin speech.

Related words

必要

necessary, essential

不必

need not, not necessary

不该

should not, ought not to

应该

should, ought to (traditional)

Appears in 3 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 该.

应该yīng gāishould, ought to, must该死gāi sǐdamn it, dammit (mild expletive)不该bù gāishould not, ought not to

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