kei4淇
Jyutpingkei4
Yalekèih
Definition
A character used in personal names.
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How it's used
This character is almost exclusively used in personal names, particularly for females in Hong Kong. It carries a sense of elegance and is often chosen for its pleasant sound and association with water, as it contains the water radical. You will rarely encounter it outside of a name context in daily life.
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Grammar guides
- LocationHow to say where something is using 喺 (hai2), place words like 度, and the common coverbs that work like English prepositions.
- Serial verbsStringing two or more verbs together without any joining word, like go to the shop buy things. Extremely common in Cantonese.
- 將 disposalHow to move the object in front of the verb with 將, to focus on what happens to it. Common in instructions and writing.
