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可 — stroke order

ㄎㄜˇ
Meaning
may
Strokes
5
Radical
Practise 可 in the full tool →

Watch how to write () stroke by stroke. 可 has 5 strokes and means “may”. It appears in common words such as 可以 (can) and 可能 (might). The animation follows the correct Chinese stroke order inside a 米字格 practice grid — tap the cell or the ↺ button to replay it.

Common words with 可

The most common words that use 可 — tap any word to draw it stroke by stroke in the full tool.

可以kěyǐcan可能kěnéngmight可是kěshìbut可愛kěàiadorable可惜kěxīit is a pity可憐kěliánpitiful

How 可 is written

Radical
Components
Formation
Pictophonetic character — formed from a semantic component 丁 and a phonetic component 口 (vigorous).

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