肯

Stroke order

肯 (Kangxi radical 130, 肉+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 卜一月 (YMB), four-corner 2122₇, composition ⿱止月)

• 啃 掯 𣔨 𬒔 𥺾 褃 錹

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 976, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29311
• Dae Jaweon: page 1427, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2048, character 4
• Unihan data for U+80AF

Historical forms of the character 肯
Western Zhou
Bronze inscriptions

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : abbreviated 冎 (“bone”) + 肉 (“meat”) – meat attached to the bone. Originally written more like 肎, the top component is now written 止.

肯

1. meat attached to the bone; tendon; sinew
2. to be willing to; to be ready to
3. to consent to; to permit; to agree
4. (archaic, rhetorical question) how could it be that

• “肯”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Jōyō kanji)

1. to agree, to affirm, to consent

• Go-on: こう (kō, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: こう (kō, Jōyō)
• On: かい (kai)
• Kun: うべなう (ubenau, 肯う)、がえんずる (gaenzuru, 肯んずる)、がえんじる (gaenjiru, 肯んじる)、あえて (aete, 肯えて)、うけがう (ukegau, 肯う)

• 肯(こう)綮(けい) (kōkei)
• 肯(こう)定(てい) (kōtei)

肯 (eumhun 옳이 여길 긍 (ori yeogil geung))

1. hanja form^? of 긍 (“willing”)
2. hanja form^? of 긍 (“consent to, permit”)

肯: Hán Nôm readings: khẳng, khứng, khừng

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