可

See also: 句
可 U+53EF, 可
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53EF
← 叮
[U+53EE] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 台 →
[U+53F0]

🉑 U+1F251, 🉑
CIRCLED IDEOGRAPH ACCEPT
[unassigned: U+1F252–U+1F25F]
← 🉐
[U+1F250] 		Enclosed Ideographic Supplement 🉠 →
[U+1F260]

Translingual
Stroke order
Stroke order

Han character

可 (radical 30, 口+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 一弓口 (MNR), four-corner 10620, composition ⿹丁口)

Derived characters

Descendants

References
  • KangXi: page 172, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3245
  • Dae Jaweon: page 383, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 567, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+53EF

Chinese
simp. and trad.
 可

Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 可
Shang Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Chu Slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (可) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
砢 *ɡ·raːlʔ
柯 *kaːl
菏 *kaːl, *ɡaːl
牁 *kaːl
滒 *kaːl
哥 *kaːl
歌 *kaːl
謌 *kaːl
鴚 *kaːl
哿 *kaːlʔ
舸 *kaːlʔ
笴 *kaːlʔ, *kaːnʔ
軻 *kʰaːl, *kʰaːlʔ, *kʰaːls
珂 *kʰaːl
可 *kʰaːlʔ
岢 *kʰaːlʔ
坷 *kʰaːlʔ, *kʰaːls
蚵 *kʰaːls, *ɡaːl
呵 *qʰaːl, *qʰaːls
訶 *qʰaːl
抲 *qʰaːl
荷 *qʰaːls, *ɡaːl, *ɡaːlʔ
何 *ɡaːl, *ɡaːlʔ
河 *ɡaːl
苛 *ɡaːl
魺 *ɡaːl
袔 *ɡaːls
阿 *qaːl
妸 *qaːl, *qaːlʔ
疴 *qaːl, *kʰraːls
鈳 *qaːl
娿 *qaːl, *qaːlʔ
痾 *qaːl
跒 *kʰraːlʔ
閜 *qʰraːlʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kʰaːlʔ) : semantic 口 + phonetic 丂 (OC *kʰluːʔ).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation
Note:
  • khó/khóⁿ - literary;
  • khóa - vernacular.
Rime
Character 可
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 歌 (94)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 枯我切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kʰɑX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kʰɑX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kʰɑX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kʰaX/
Li
Rong		 /kʰɑX/
Wang
Li		 /kʰɑX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kʰɑX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 kě
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 可
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 kě
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ khaX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[k]ʰˁa[j]ʔ/
English may; acceptable

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 可
Reading # 1/1
No. 7446
Phonetic
component		 可
Rime
group		 歌
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 可
Old
Chinese		 /*kʰaːlʔ/

Definitions

可

  1. can, may, be able to
  2. Particle used for emphasis.
    • 我可不太知道。  ―  Wǒ kě bù tài zhīdào.  ―  I don't really know.
  3. to approve, to permit
  4. to suit
    • 可心 (kěxīn, “satisfying”)
  5. to be worth doing
  6. Prefix attached to verbs, expressing possibility and turning them into adjectives. Similar to the English suffix -able.
    可吃  ―  kěchī  ―  edible
    可愛 / 可爱  ―  kě'ài  ―  lovely
    可憐 / 可怜  ―  kělián  ―  pitiful
  7. Short for 可是 (kěshì, “but”).
Usage notes

When Mandarin speakers wish to imitate the sound of the dialectal pronunciation of 可 in written form, the character 闊／阔 (kuò) is often used to substitute for 可.

闊以 / 阔以  ―  kuòyǐ  ―  imitates the sound of 可以 (kěyǐ) in dialectal Chinese
闊落 / 阔落  ―  kuòluò  ―  imitates the sound of 可樂／可乐 (kělè) in dialectal Chinese

Compounds
Derived terms from 可

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Definitions

可

  1. Only used in 可汗 (kèhán).

Japanese

Kanji
可

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds
Compounds of 可
Common
Uncommon
Archaic / rare

Etymology
Kanji in this term
可
か
Grade: 5
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 可 (MC kʰɑX).

Noun

可 (hiragana か, rōmaji ka)

  1. passable
  2. allowed
    再配 (さいはい)布 (ふ)が可 (か)の画 (が)像 (ぞう)
    saihaifu ga ka no gazō
    images whose redistribution is allowed

Suffix

可 (hiragana か, rōmaji -ka)

  1. permitted, allowed, licensed

Korean

Etymology 1

Hanja

可 (eumhun 옳을 가 (oreul ga))

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Etymology 2

Hanja

可 (eumhun 오랑캐 극 (orangkae geuk))

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Vietnamese

Han character

可 (khả, khá, tài)

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