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課

課

See also: 课

Translingual

Han character

課 (radical 149 言+8, 15 strokes, cangjie input 卜口田木 (YRWD), four-corner 06694, composition ⿰言果)

References

  • KangXi: page 1165, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35589
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1630, character 30
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3985, character 14
  • Unihan data for U+8AB2

Chinese

trad. 課
simp. 课

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (果) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
裸 *ɡ·roːlʔ
躶 *ɡ·roːlʔ
果 *kloːlʔ
菓 *kloːlʔ
猓 *kloːlʔ
輠 *kloːlʔ, *ɡloːlʔ, *ɡroːlʔ, *kʰluːls
裹 *kloːlʔ, *kloːls
蜾 *kloːlʔ
惈 *kloːlʔ
粿 *kloːlʔ
窠 *kʰloːl
稞 *kʰloːl, *ɡroːlʔ
課 *kʰloːl, *kʰloːls
髁 *kʰloːl, *kʰloːls, *kʰroːlʔ
棵 *kʰloːl, *kʰloːnʔ, *ɡloːnʔ
顆 *kʰloːlʔ
堁 *kʰloːlʔ, *kʰloːls, *kloːns
敤 *kʰloːlʔ, *kʰloːls
夥 *qʰloːlʔ, *ɡloːlʔ, *ɡroːlʔ
婐 *qloːlʔ, *kroːl
踝 *ɡroːlʔ
祼 *ɡluːlʔ

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 課
Mandarin Beijing /kʰɤ⁵¹/
Harbin /kʰɤ⁵³/
Tianjin /kʰɤ⁵³/
Jinan /kʰə²¹/
Qingdao /kʰə⁴²/
Zhengzhou /kʰuo³¹²/
Xi'an /kʰuo⁴⁴/
Xining /kʰu²¹³/
Yinchuan /kʰuə¹³/
/kʰə¹³/
Lanzhou /kʰuə¹³/
Ürümqi /kʰɤ²¹³/
Wuhan /kʰuo²¹³/
Chengdu /kʰo¹³/
Guiyang /kʰo²¹³/
Kunming /kʰo²¹²/
Nanjing /kʰo⁴⁴/
Hefei /kʰʊ⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /kʰuɤ⁴⁵/
Pingyao /kʰuə³⁵/
Hohhot /kʰɤ⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /kʰu³⁵/
Suzhou /kʰəu⁵¹³/
Hangzhou /kʰo⁴⁴⁵/
Wenzhou /kʰu⁴²/
Hui Shexian /kʰiu³²⁴/
Tunxi /kʰo⁴²/
Xiang Changsha /kʰo⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /kʰo⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /kʰuo²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /kʰo⁵³/
Taoyuan /kʰo⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /fɔ³³/
Nanning /kʰɔ³³/
Hong Kong /fɔ³³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /kʰo²¹/
/kʰe²¹/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /kʰuɔ²¹²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /kʰua³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /kʰue²¹³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /xua³⁵/
Rime
Character 課 課
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 溪 (29) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 戈 (95) 戈 (95)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) I I
Fanqie 苦禾切 苦卧切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kʰuɑ/ /kʰuɑH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kʰuɑ/ /kʰuɑH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kʰuɑ/ /kʰuɑH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kʰwa/ /kʰwaH/
Li
Rong		 /kʰuɑ/ /kʰuɑH/
Wang
Li		 /kʰuɑ/ /kʰuɑH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kʰuɑ/ /kʰuɑH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 kuō kuò
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 課 課
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 4778 4784
Phonetic
component		 果 果
Rime
group		 歌 歌
Rime
subdivision		 3 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 科
Old
Chinese		 /*kʰloːl/ /*kʰloːls/

Definitions

課

  1. lesson   (Classifier: 堂; 節／节 m)
  2. course   (Classifier: 門／门)
  3. classwork

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

課

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Counter

課 ‎(hiragana か, romaji -ka)

  1. lessons
  2. chapters of a book

Noun

課 ‎(hiragana か, romaji ka)

  1. lesson
    第二課 (だいにか)
    dai ni ka
    2nd lesson

Suffix

課 ‎(hiragana か, romaji -ka)

  1. section, department
  2. lesson

Korean

Hanja

課 • ‎(gwa) (hangeul 과, McCune-Reischauer kwa, Yale kwa)

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Vietnamese

Han character

課 (khoá, khoả, thoả, thuở, thuả)

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