Chinese Character Wiki
课

kè

lesson

Phonosemantic compound. 讠 represents the meaning and 果 represents the sound. Simplified form of 課.

Components
讠 meaning component

讠  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

讠 is a component form of 言.

果 sound component

果  Sound component

guǒ

  

fruit

Evolution

课 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
课 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
课 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
课 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

课 (課) 

kè

lesson; course; classwork; subject; CL:門|门[mén]; class; CL:堂[táng],節|节[jié]; to levy; tax; form of divination

Most common words with 课
Freq.
Word
Meaning

课

subject

上课

to go to class

课程

course

课堂

classroom

课题

task

Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 33.2052% of movies

960th most common character in movies

1208th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Traditional

課

Unicode

U+8BFE


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