卻

卻 (Kangxi radical 26, 卩+7, 9 strokes, cangjie input 金口尸中 (CRSL), four-corner 8762₀, composition ⿰谷卩(GHTKV) or ⿰𧮫卩(J))

• 𠊬, 𠶸, 𢔱, 𢜭, 腳, 𦃁, 𧍕, 𨍖, 𤷽
• 㮝 (Exception: Only for mainland China. Taiwan character form contains 郤 instead)

• 却 (Preferred form used in mainland China and Japan)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 159, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2867
• Dae Jaweon: page 365, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 317, character 2
• Unihan data for U+537B

Historical forms of the character 卻
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Qin slip script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kaɡ, *kʰaɡ) : phonetic 𧮫 () + semantic 卩.

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卻

1. to withdraw; to retreat

   退卻／退却  ―  tuìquè  ―  to retreat

2. (literary) to drive back (enemy)

   卻敵／却敌  ―  quèdí  ―  to drive back an enemy

3. to decline; to refuse

   推卻／推却  ―  tuīquè  ―  to decline

4. (particle placed after monosyllabic verbs) to do away with

   忘卻／忘却  ―  wàngquè  ―  to forget

   了卻／了却  ―  lequè  ―  to end

5. (only sentence-medially) but; yet; however

   簡單卻有效的方法 [MSC, trad.]
   简单却有效的方法 [MSC, simp.]

   jiǎndān què yǒuxiào de fāngfǎ [Pinyin]

   simple yet effective way

   我喜歡你，卻不敢表達。 [MSC, trad.]
   我喜欢你，却不敢表达。 [MSC, simp.]

   Wǒ xǐhuān nǐ, què bùgǎn biǎodá. [Pinyin]

   I love you, but I do not have the courage to express it.

   • 經過三天三夜5次大手術，杜富國從死亡線上被救了回來，但卻永遠地失去了雙手和雙眼。 [MSC, trad.]
     经过三天三夜5次大手术，杜富国从死亡线上被救了回来，但却永远地失去了双手和双眼。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 程煥 (2021 August 13) ““排雷英战士”杜富国——永不停下奋斗的脚步事”, in People's Daily (in Chinese), page 4

     Jīngguò sān tiān sān yè 5 cì dà shǒushù, Dù Fùguó cóng sǐwángxiàn shàng bèi jiù le huílái, dàn què yǒngyuǎn de shīqù le shuāngshǒu hé shuāngyǎn. [Pinyin]

     After 5 major surgeries in three days, Du Fuguo was saved from the verge of death, but yet had permanently lost his arms and eyes.

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A00457
• “卻”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• (Min Nan) “Entry #4718”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. Alternative form of 却 (“instead; on the contrary”)

• On (unclassified): きゃく (kyaku)
• Kun: しりぞく (shirizoku); しりぞける (shirizokeru); かえって (kaette)

卻 (eum 각 (gak))

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卻: Hán Nôm readings: khước

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