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何其

Cantonese · source Jyutpingho4 kei4

how is it like that, why is it like that; the extent of; so, very

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Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.

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Reading & tones

ho44 · low fallingkei44 · low falling

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Same syllable, six tones

ho呵ho1to scold 可ho2canho3—河ho4riverho5—贺ho6to congratulate

kei崎kei1mountainous 婍kei2冀kei3another name for Hebei province 奇kei4strange 企kei5to plan a projectkei6—

Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.

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Written characters

何其

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CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:

何其 hé qí CC-CEDICT · Mandarin(literary) (similar to 多麼 duō me, used before an adjective in exclamations) how (fortunate etc); so (many etc)

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CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: he2 qi2. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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