可谓 kěwèi it could even be said
How to remember 可谓: 可 may + 谓 to call = it could even be said.
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How it is used
- A formal 'one may well call it / it can truly be said to be' - 可谓一举两得 (kěwèi yìjǔ-liǎngdé) it can truly be called killing two birds with one stone.
- A written-register connective that introduces an apt summing-up characterization; often precedes an idiom or striking phrase.