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)?

豈 character breakdown

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.
variant of 豆[dou4]
bean / pea / CL:棵[ke1],粒[li4] / sacrificial vessel

= + 𠮛 : Don Quixote (d) is posting a scroll (𠮛) in the outhouse's bathroom (ou4). He's advertising beans (豆) out of which weed (䒑) will grow.

Characters with 豈 as component

ant / variant of 蟻|蚁[yi3]
balmy / genial as wind

Words with 豈

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 豈

豈 currently does not appear in any sentence.