(gài) - general, approximate; outline (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
gàiTraditional: 概
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Translation
general, approximate; outline (bound morpheme)
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound: the wood radical 木 on the left refers to a wooden levelling strip once drawn across a grain measure, and 既 (ji) supplies the sound, giving the senses of general, approximate and outline.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 木 (wood radical) + 既 (ji, phonetic)
Stroke order
概
Examples
。
He probably will not come.
。
It will take roughly ten minutes to arrive.
。
I roughly know the answer.
。
He'll probably be home around ten.
。
I have no idea what the answer is.
概 (gài) is a bound morpheme meaning approximate or general; it shows up in 大概 (dàgài), probably or roughly.
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 概.
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