Chou Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Mouth (kǒu) Character: 可 Kangxi Strokes: 5 Page 172, Entry 12 Pronounced ke (third tone). Shuowen Jiezi (Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters): To agree. Guangyun (Broad Rhymes): To permit or allow. Yunhui (Collection of Rhymes): The opposite of no. Book of Documents (Shangshu), Canon of Yao: Can the clamor and litigation be permitted? Wenzhongzi, Serving the Sovereign Chapter: Mountain Tao is indeed a man of great understanding; he finds much to agree with and little to find strange. Also implies barely sufficient; a phrase indicating insufficiency. Analects (Lunyu): The Master said: It is acceptable. Book of Rites (Liji), Inner Chapters: Select among the mothers and those who are acceptable. Commentary: The mothers refer to the various concubines; those who are acceptable refer to the tutors and attendants. Also means the place where. Book of Rites (Liji), Doctrine of the Mean: It embodies all things and there is no place that is overlooked. Commentary: To embody is like to give birth; to be acceptable is like the place where. It implies there is nothing left out, meaning all things are born from the energy of ghosts and spirits. Also a surname. Zhengzitong (Comprehensive Dictionary of Characters): During the Tang dynasty, there was an advisory official named Ke Zhongzheng; during the Song dynasty, there was a scholar named Ke Mao. Also pronounced ke (first tone). History of Wei (Weishu), Biography of Tuyuhun: Khagan (Kehan); this is no longer a matter of human affairs. History of Tang (Tangshu), Biography of Turks: Khagan (Kehan) is like a Chanyu; the wife is called Khatun (Kedun). Also rhymes with ku (third tone). Han Yu, Poem on the Sagely Virtue of the Yuanhe Era: Bearing disgrace is difficult, but to indulge it is not acceptable. When the army is sent to punish, their mass is ten brigades. Also rhymes with ke (fourth tone). Cao Pi, Widow's Rhapsody: Lying on my pillow, I do not sleep, waiting for the dawn to sit up. A hundred sorrows come crowding in, my heart is gloomy and I have no one to rely on. Jiyun (Collection of Rhymes): Ge is an ancient form of the character. Note detailed in the Yawn (qian) radical, ten strokes. Also read as he (second tone). Stone Drum Inscriptions: Its fish are indeed what? Fengya Guangyi (Expanded Notes on the Elegant and Refined): The characters are read as what, an ancient simplified form.