卻 (què)
but; yet; however
How 卻 is written
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 谷 — valley
- Traditional
- 卻
- Simplified
- 却
Components
- 谷 valley
- 卩 seal
Common words using 卻
- 了卻 liǎoquè
- to resolve; to settle
- 冷卻 lěngquè
- to cool off; cooling
- 卻步 quèbù
- to step back
- 忘卻 wàngquè
- to forget (esp. in writing)
- 拋卻 pāoquè
- to discard
- 望而卻步 wàngérquèbù
- to shrink back; to flinch
- 退卻 tuìquè
- to retreat; to shrink back
卻 in a sentence
他很有錢，卻很小氣。
Tā hěn yǒuqián, què hěn xiǎoqì.
“He is rich, but very stingy.”
How common is 卻?
卻 is the 287th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 63.7% of all running text.
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