肯 kěn
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kěn
verb
to agree; to consent; to permit
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '肯'; Guoyu '肯' v 1; Kroll 2015 '肯' 1, p. 240; Unihan '肯') -
kěn
auxiliary verb
agree; willing
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: 肯 is used in this sense as a modal auxiliary verb in Literary Chinese (Guoyu '肯' v 2; Pulleyblank 1995, p. 122; Sun 2006, loc. 1723). -
kěn
verb
acknowledge
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '肯' 1a, p. 240) -
kěn
verb
to be able to
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '肯' 1b, p. 240) -
kěn
adverb
could it be?
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '肯' adv; Kroll 2015 '肯' 2, p. 240) -
kěn
noun
a ligament
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '肯' 3, p. 240)
Contained in
- 肯定并例句(肯定並例句) active conjoined sentence
- 首肯 to give a nod of approval
- 肯尼迪角 Cape Kennedy, name 1963-1973 of Cape Canaveral 卡納維拉爾角|卡纳维拉尔角, Florida
- 中肯 pertinent; apropos
- 基孔肯雅热(基孔肯雅熱) chikungunya fever
- 肯綮 a joint [in the body] ; a pivotal point [in a situation]
- 宁肯(寧肯) would rather...; it would be better...
- 肯定句 affirmative sentence
- 假肯定句 false affirmative
- 库肯霍夫公园(庫肯霍夫公園) Keukenhof, flower garden in Netherlands
- 肯德拉 Kendra (name)
- 肯定 to confirm; to agree with ; affirmative; certain; definite ; to recognize to be of value; to affirm ; to understand
- 林肯 Lincoln
- 发言中肯(發言中肯) to hit the nail on the head
- 不肯 not willing
- 真肯定句 true affirmative (TA)
- 肯尼亚先令(肯尼亞先令) Kenya shilling
- 尚未肯决(尚未肯決) an agreement was not able to be reached
- 肯普索恩 (Dirk) Kempthorne (US Senator from Idaho)
- 麦肯锡(麥肯錫) MacKenzie / McKinsey ; MacKenzie / McKinsey
- 杰奎琳·肯尼迪(傑奎琳·肯尼迪) Jacqueline Onassis Kennedy
- 肯尼迪航天中心 Kennedy space center, Cape Canaveral 卡納維拉爾角|卡纳维拉尔角, Florida
- 肯德基 Kentucky Fried Chicken
- 郎肯循环(郎肯循環) Rankine cycle (engineering)
Also contained in
阿肯色大学 、 肯塔基州 、 肯沃伦 、 肯德基炸鸡 、 肯塔基 、 阿肯色 、 斯托肯立石圈 、 阿肯色州 、 肯尼迪 、 肯尼亚 、 萨尔布吕肯 、 肯帕德湾 、 肯亚 、 林肯郡 、 肯特
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Truncated for common words
- 第二回 Chapter 2 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 15
- 卷二百七十六 列傳第一百六十四 朱大典 張國維 張肯堂 曾櫻 朱繼祚 余煌 王瑞栴 路振飛 何楷 熊汝霖 錢肅樂 沈宸荃 Volume 276 Biographies 164: Zhu Dadian, Zhang Guowei, Zhang Kentang, Ceng Ying, Zhu Jizuo, Yu Huang, Wang Ruizhan, Lu Zhenfei, He Kai, Xiong Rulin, Qian Sule, Shen Chenquan History of Ming 明史 — count: 12
- 第八十八回 Chapter 88 Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 — count: 11
- 卷二百五十八 列傳第一百四十六 許譽卿 華允誠 魏呈潤 毛羽健 吳執御 章正宸 黃紹杰 傅朝佑 姜埰 熊開元 詹爾選 湯開遠 成勇 陳龍正 Volume 258 Biographies 146: Xu Yuqing, Hua Yuncheng, Wei Chengrun, Mao Yujian, Wu Zhiyu, Zhang Zhengchen, Huang Shaojie, Fu Chaoyou, Jiang 埰, Xiong Kaiyuan, Zhan Erxuan, Tang Kaiyuan, Cheng Yong, Chen Longzheng History of Ming 明史 — count: 10
- 第四十一回 Chapter 41 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 8
- 第二十五回 Chapter 25 The Scholars 儒林外史 — count: 7
- 第三十回 Chapter 30 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 7
- 第二十三回 Chapter 23 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 6
- 第四十回 Chapter 40 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 6
- 第二十三回 Chapter 23 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 6
Collocations
- 未肯 (未肯) 未肯用命 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 宣公 Lord Xuan — count: 16
- 肯听 (肯聽) 使失路者而肯聽習問知 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 解老第二十 Chapter 20: Commentaries on Laozi's Teachings — count: 10
- 安肯 (安肯) 奸邪之臣安肯乘利而退其身 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 孤憤第十一 Chapter 11: Cynicism — count: 6
- 肯幸 (肯幸) 陛下肯幸聽臣之計 — Xin Shu 新書, Scroll 3 — count: 4
- 肯行 (肯行) 乃肯行 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《外戚世家》 Houses of the External Relatives — count: 4
- 陛下肯 (陛下肯) 陛下肯聽臣一言乎 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷二十 反質 Chapter 20: Returning to Simplicity — count: 4
- 肯用 (肯用) 莫肯用訊 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 小雅‧節南山之什‧雨無正 Minor odes of the kingdom - Jie Nan Shan Zhi Shen - Yu Wu Zheng — count: 3
- 肯正 (肯正) 非肯正為天下言 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《汲鄭列傳》 Biographies of Ji and Zheng — count: 3
- 肯先 (肯先) 莫肯先附 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷三十一 郭杜孔張廉王蘇羊賈陸列傳 Volume 31: Biographies of Guo, Du, Kong, Zhang, Lian, Wang, Su, Yang, Jia, Lu — count: 3
- 肯邪 (肯邪) 神人尚肯邪不邪 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《孝武本紀》 Annals of the Xiaowu Emperor — count: 3