kě yǐ

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可以 (kě yǐ) is a Chinese word meaning “can; may; possible”.

Meanings

  1. 1can
  2. 2may
  3. 3possible
  4. 4able to
  5. 5not bad
  6. 6pretty good
Part of speech
verb

Characters in 可以

可kě · (prefix) can; may; able to; -able以yǐ · to use

Related words

可(prefix) can; may; able to; -able可used in 可汗[ke4 han2]可能might (happen)所以therefore以为to think; to believe (often with the implication that the belief is mistaken – unless referring to one's own current belief)以to use以abbr. for Israel 以色列[Yi3 se4 lie4]以old variant of 以[yi3]以old variant of 以[yi3]以前before可是but; however以后after

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