Kilo Lingo

可

kě

Traditional: 可

HSK 3
#163 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

may, can, to approve

Stroke order

Stroke order for 可

可

Examples

？

Is it okay?

。

This is really not good.

。

But I don't want to go.

。

This child is really clever.

。

He can finally rest.

可 (kě) means may, can, to approve. It is used as a verb in everyday Mandarin speech.

Related words

可是

but, however, yet

可以

can, may (permission or possibility)

我会

I will, I know how to

我能

I can, I am able to

应该

should, ought to, must

Appears in 7 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 可.

可以kě yǐcan, may (permission or possibility)可能kě néngpossibly, maybe; possible可是kě shìbut, however, yet可爱kě àicute, adorable, lovely可怕kě pàfrightening, terrible, scary可怜kě liánpitiful, poor, pathetic可不是kě bú shìexactly, isn't it just

Used in

Add to review queue

Track this word in your spaced-repetition queue and be tested on it at the right interval.

Go to my review queue

This word is part of lesson 4.