gè
[measure word]
Phonosemantic compound. ⺮ represents the meaning and 固 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kˤa[r]-s | kaH | gè | piece, item |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 99.9840% of movies
14th most common character in movies
12th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Unicode | U+7B87 |
Shuowen | “箇,竹枚也。从竹,固聲。” |
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