gai3彑
Jyutpinggai3
Yalegai
Definition
Pig snout.
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How it's used
This character is almost exclusively used as a radical in Chinese orthography rather than as a standalone word in modern speech. It represents the shape of a pig snout and appears in characters like 彘 or 彖. Learners will rarely encounter it outside of formal dictionary lookups or discussions about character structure.
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Do not confuse this with the radical 彐 which represents a hand or a broom, as they are visually very similar in many fonts.
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Grammar guides
- Directional complementsThe small words added after a verb to show direction of movement, like up, down, out, in, and back. Common in everyday Cantonese.
- DemonstrativesThis and that with 呢 and 嗰, the personal pronouns, and how 哋 turns I, you, and he into we, you all, and they.
- Resultative complementsSticking a result word onto a verb to show how it turned out, like eat until full or look and find. A productive everyday pattern.
