| qǐ | how can it be that?/(rhetorical adverb) |
| 岂 | old variant of 愷|恺 |
| 岂不 | how couldn't...? wouldn't it...? |
| 岂不是 | Isn't it |
| 岂但 | not only |
| 岂可 | on no account should. |
| 岂敢 | how could one dare? I don't deserve such praise |
| 岂料 | not to have expected. |
| 岂有此理 | how can this be so? (idiom); preposterous ridiculous absurd |
| 岂止 | not only far from more than |
| 岂知 | surprisingly |
| 岂肯 | on no account could. |
| 岂能 | how could; can; how is it possible |
| 岂非 | wouldn't it be ... ? |