Chinese Character Wiki
科

kē

section

Phonosemantic compound. 禾 represents the sound and 斗 represents the meaning. Depicts measuring out grain (禾) with a dipper (斗).

Components
禾 sound,meaning component

禾  Sound Meaning component

hé

  

grain stalk

斗 meaning component

斗  Meaning component

dǒu, dòu

  

ladle

Evolution

科 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
科 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
科 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

科  

kē

section, department, science; branch of study; administrative section; division; field; branch; stage directions; family (taxonomy); rules; laws; to mete out (punishment); to levy (taxes etc); to fine sb; CL:個|个[gè]

Most common words with 科
Freq.
Word
Meaning

科学

science

科技

science and technology

科

field

科学家

scientist

外科

surgery (branch of medicine)

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

蝌

Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 51.1613% of movies

549th most common character in movies

277th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+79D1

Shuowen

“科，程也。从禾，从斗。斗者，量也。”


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