慨 — Chinese character
慨
kǎi
sigh, regret, lament; generosity
- Pinyin
- kǎi
- Radical
- 61 ⼼ (Heart)
- Strokes
- 12
- Components
- 忄 既
- Formation
- pictophonetic — heart; meaning component 忄; sound component 既
- Japanese
- 慨 as a kanji
Common words with 慨
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 慷慨 | kāng kǎi | vehement; fervent; generous; magnanimous |
| 愤慨 (憤慨) | fèn kǎi | to resent; resentment |
| 感慨 | gǎn kǎi | to sigh with sorrow, regret etc; rueful |
| 慷慨激昂 | kāng kǎi jī áng | impassioned; vehement |
| 慷慨解囊 | kāng kǎi jiě náng | to contribute generously (idiom); help sb generously with money; to give generously to charity |
| 慨叹 (慨嘆) | kǎi tàn | to sigh with regret; lament |
| 慷慨赴义 (慷慨赴義) | kāng kǎi fù yì | heroically sacrificing one's life (idiom); to sacrifice oneself fervently to the cause |
| 慷慨捐生 | kāng kǎi juān shēng | sacrificing one's life generously (idiom); to sacrifice oneself fervently to the cause |
| 慷慨输将 (慷慨輸將) | kāng kǎi shū jiāng | to donate generously (idiom) |
English words written with 慨
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.