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可歌可泣

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On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2.

kěgēkěqì ㄎㄜˇ ㄍㄜ ㄎㄜˇ ㄑㄧˋ

    • lit. you can sing or you can cry (idiom) fig. deeply moving
    • happy and sad
    • inspiring and tragic

Character by character

  • 可(kě)can
  • 歌(gē)song
  • 可(kě)can
  • 泣(qì)sob

Sources

  • CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0
  • pinyinjs, Apache-2.0
  • 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT
C2 HSK 7-9
  • Reading: kěgēkěqì  
  • Characters: 可  歌  可  泣 

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