<p><strong>生气 - angry</strong></p>
<p><strong>可气 - annoying</strong> (worth to be angry)</p>
<ul>
<li><p>他總是迟到, (真)可气 - He's always late, it is (so) annoying!</p>
</li>
<li><p>可气的是, 他總是迟到 - It is worth to be angry, for he's always late. (Note, &quot;<strong>可气</strong>的是&quot; can be, and often is, replaced by &quot;<strong>值得生气</strong>的是&quot;.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Expresions similar to 可气: 惱人, 煩人 (可气, 惱人, 煩人 are milder than the expressions - 可惡; 討厭).</p>

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r13
<p>生气 means annoyed. 可气 means annoying, i.e., 令人生气. For example, if you have a noisy neighbor, then 你很生气 and 你的邻居很可气.</p>

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kyc
<p>Grammatically these terms can behave quite differently.</p>
<ul>
<li><p>可气: stative verb a.k.a. adjective</p>
</li>
<li><p>生气: noun, stative verb and also verb-object a.k.a separable verb. The latter means that it can be split, giving constructions like the following:</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>他还在生我的气呢<br />
He is still angry with me.</p>
<p>Here are the CEDICT entries for these two terms.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>生氣 生气 [sheng1 qi4] /to get angry; to be furious/vitality; liveliness/</p>
<p>可氣 可气 [ke3 qi4] /annoying/irritating/exasperating/</p>
</blockquote>
<p>It also may be useful to note that 生气 is a commonly used word (it's number 819 in a list of Chinese terms sorted by usage frequency I downloaded a while ago called SUBTLEX), whereas 可气 is <em>much</em> less common - (number 45298 in the SUBTLEX list).</p>
<p>As a student of Chinese, I wonder - is there an implicit 生 in 可气?  I.e. does 可气 carry more or less the same meaning as 可生气?</p>

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可生气：soooo angry
Pedroski
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I don't think it's necessary to imagine an implicit 生 in the word 可气. 气 is quite happy to behave as a verb in its own right (cf. 气死了，别气我了，我气他一下, etc).
Sanchuan
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goPlayerJuggler
<p>What kyc (not KFC?) said:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>可气，读音是kě qì。意思是使人生气。</p>
<p>生气 生气是汉语词语，读作shēng
qì，一是指活力，生命力，生机；二是指发怒，因不合心意而不愉快。风水学中将生气简称为气，亦名内气、五气、阴阳之气。</p>
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Pedroski
<p>Can simeone explain the difference between 生气 and 可气 ?
Thanks!</p>

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There are 可惡，可恨 even 可怒也，  But 可气 is not a thing.
Tang Ho
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@TangHo it's in dictionaries. Maybe it's a regional thing you're not familiar with. 可气〔-氣〕/
kěqì/
形 使人生气/
这孩子天黑了还不回家, 真可气。
goPlayerJuggler
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It seems to be an uncommon term, judging from a frequency list I encountered - see my answer below.
goPlayerJuggler
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What's the difference between 生气 and 可气?
# What's the difference between 生气 and 可气?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2024-08-12)

Can simeone explain the difference between 生气 and 可气 ?
Thanks!

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: There are 可惡，可恨 even 可怒也，  But 可气 is not a thing.  
> **username_2**: @TangHo it's in dictionaries. Maybe it's a regional thing you're not familiar with. 可气〔-氣〕/ kěqì/ 形 使人生气/ 这孩子天黑了还不回家, 真可气。  
> **username_2**: It seems to be an uncommon term, judging from a frequency list I encountered - see my answer below.  

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## 4 answers

### Answer by username_3 on 2024-08-12. Score: 3 | Accepted answer

**生气 - angry**

**可气 - annoying** (worth to be angry)

* 他總是迟到, (真)可气 - He's always late, it is (so) annoying!
* 可气的是, 他總是迟到 - It is worth to be angry, for he's always late. (Note, "**可气**的是" can be, and often is, replaced by "**值得生气**的是".

Expresions similar to 可气: 惱人, 煩人 (可气, 惱人, 煩人 are milder than the expressions - 可惡; 討厭).


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### Answer by username_4 on 2024-08-12. Score: 2

生气 means annoyed. 可气 means annoying, i.e., 令人生气. For example, if you have a noisy neighbor, then 你很生气 and 你的邻居很可气.


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### Answer by username_2 on 2024-08-12. Score: 2

Grammatically these terms can behave quite differently.

* 可气: stative verb a.k.a. adjective
* 生气: noun, stative verb and also verb-object a.k.a separable verb. The latter means that it can be split, giving constructions like the following:

他还在生我的气呢  
He is still angry with me.

Here are the CEDICT entries for these two terms.

> 生氣 生气 [sheng1 qi4] /to get angry; to be furious/vitality; liveliness/
>
> 可氣 可气 [ke3 qi4] /annoying/irritating/exasperating/

It also may be useful to note that 生气 is a commonly used word (it's number 819 in a list of Chinese terms sorted by usage frequency I downloaded a while ago called SUBTLEX), whereas 可气 is *much* less common - (number 45298 in the SUBTLEX list).

As a student of Chinese, I wonder - is there an implicit 生 in 可气? I.e. does 可气 carry more or less the same meaning as 可生气?

> **Comments:**
> **username_5**: 可生气：soooo angry  
> **username_6**: I don't think it's necessary to imagine an implicit 生 in the word 可气. 气 is quite happy to behave as a verb in its own right (cf. 气死了，别气我了，我气他一下, etc).  

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### Answer by username_5 on 2024-08-12. Score: 0

What kyc (not KFC?) said:

> 可气，读音是kě qì。意思是使人生气。
>
> 生气 生气是汉语词语，读作shēng
> qì，一是指活力，生命力，生机；二是指发怒，因不合心意而不愉快。风水学中将生气简称为气，亦名内气、五气、阴阳之气。


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