kē
nest
Phonosemantic compound. 穴 represents the meaning and 果 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4118th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+7AA0 |
Shuowen | “窠,空也。穴中曰窠,樹上曰巢。从穴,果聲。” |
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