old variant of 愷|恺[kai3] / old variant of 凱|凯[kai3]
how? (emphatic question)

= + : Instead of doing experiments the Queen of Hearts (qi) is idly playing with a fork (山) and a butcher's hook (己) in the space station (Ø3). The people at ground control keep asking the same question: how can this be (岂有此理)?

岂 character breakdown

surname Shan
mountain / hill / anything that resembles a mountain / CL:座[zuo4] / bundled straw in which silkworms spin cocoons / gable

= + : Mnemonic symbol: 山 looks like the tip of a fork. Sherlock Holmes (sh) is climbing a mountain (山) in front of the anthill (an1). He uses a dinosaur bone (〡) as walking stick, and to have better grip he attached a fork (山) to its tip. Unfortunately he accidentally sticks the fork into a receptacle (凵) on the ground of the mountain and gets shocked.
self / oneself / sixth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1] / sixth in order / letter "F" or Roman "VI" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / hexa

This character looks like a butcher's hook. In the space station, Joan of Arc wants to conduct an experiment about a sixth order chaotic pendulum. First she hooks a butcher's hook to a sickle, then sticks the sickle's end into a flute, and finally hooks the handle of a shovel into the last hole of the flute. She then swings the chaotic pendulum to observe its behaviour.

Characters with 岂 as component

surname Kai

= + : After capitalism has been triumphant (凯) over communism Karl Marx (k) hides under a table (几) in the airplane (ai3) and asks: how can this be (岂)?
triumphant / victorious / chi (Greek letter Χχ)

= + : After capitalism has been triumphant (凯) over communism Karl Marx (k) hides under a table (几) in the airplane (ai3) and asks: how can this be (岂)?
armor
joyful / kind
alder
to covet / to long for
to loosen / to open
white (of snow etc)
dry terrain
used in 剴切|剀切[kai3 qie4]
carefully / moderately
mill
see 磑磑|硙硙[wei2 wei2]
snowy white / pure white / spotless

Words with 岂

not only / far from / more than
how can this be so? (idiom); preposterous / ridiculous / absurd
how couldn't...? / wouldn't it...?
who would have thought that / who would have expected that
how could one dare? / I don't deserve such praise
wouldn't it be ... ?

Sentences with 岂

dà
wáng
nǐ
yào
shi
bù
qù
kàn
kan
 
 
nà
qǐ
bù
shì
kě
xi̅
ma