Language/Mandarin-chinese/Vocabulary/够(夠)-gòu-enough

够(夠) gòu enough in Mandarin Chinese

This character is itself both a radical and a phonetic. For example, it occurs as a phonetic in Radical is 夕 xī “evening.” Phonetic is 句 jù “sentence”. One “sentence” 句 in two “evenings” 夕夕 is “enough” 够 (夠). Notice that the left and right components are reversed in the simplified 够 from the traditional 夠.

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Example

够 (夠) gòu be enough [SV]

Sources

Book: Intermediate Written Chinese by Cornelius C. Kubler

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