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恺

愷
kǎi
adjective #45,949

Meanings

  1. 1 joyful; happy
  2. 2 kind; amiable

Examples

他的名字用了恺字，意思是和善快乐。
Tā de míngzi yòng le kǎi zì, yìsi shì héshàn kuàilè.
His name uses the character kai, meaning kind and joyful.
军队在恺乐声中凯旋。
Jūnduì zài kǎiyuè shēng zhōng kǎixuán.
The army returned in triumph to the sound of victory music.

Tips

usage
Literary and rare; most often a given-name character meaning kind and joyful. It shares its root with 凯 (triumphant) — 恺乐 is music of celebration. Notable bearer: cartoonist 丰子恺.

Components

radical
忄 xīn
heart (left-side form)
Left-side heart radical 忄, the upright form of 心. Joy and kindness are feelings of the heart, so the heart radical anchors 恺.
phonetic
岂 qǐ
how (rhetorical); surely not
Right side 岂 supplies the sound (qǐ shifting to kǎi). The same phonetic gives 凯 (triumphant) and 铠 (armor).

Stroke Order

恺 kǎi