Home可否
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

可否

kěfǒu

is it possible or not?

IN A VIDEO可否

See this word with its surrounding sentence, pinyin, translation, and timestamp.

DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

is it possible or not?

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 可否 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 可否 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

可否请你现在让我走?kě fǒu qǐng nǐ xiàn zài ràng wǒ zǒu?

Will you please let me go now?

可否劳驾你帮我个忙?kě fǒu láo jià nǐ bāng wǒ gè máng?

Could you please do me a favor?

那边那位高呼人人生来平等的先生,您可否帮我定义一下「人」?nà biān nà wèi gāo hū rén rén shēng lái píng děng de xiān shēng, nín kě fǒu bāng wǒ dìng yì yī xià 「rén」?

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 可否.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 可否.

Directly before

  • 您可否1

Directly after

  • 可否请1
  • 可否劳驾1
  • 可否帮1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 可否

What does 可否 mean in Chinese?

可否 (kěfǒu) means is it possible or not?.

How do you pronounce 可否?

可否 is pronounced kěfǒu.

Is 可否 an HSK word?

可否 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

SEE IT IN CONTEXT

Turn your own Chinese video into a searchable learning file.

Keep English optional, place pinyin above Hanzi, and export subtitles named after your video.

Upload a video