課

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See also: 课
課 U+8AB2, 課
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8AB2
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Translingual

Han character

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

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1165, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35589
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1630, character 30
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): 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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kʰloːl, *kʰloːls) : semantic 言 (“to say”) + phonetic 果 (OC *kloːlʔ) – to assess; to examine.

Pronunciation

Note:
  • khò/khò͘ - literary;
  • khè/khòe - vernacular.
  • 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 (Hokkien) /kʰo²¹/
/kʰe²¹/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /kʰuɔ²¹²/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /kʰua³³/
Shantou (Teochew) /kʰue²¹³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /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
Baxter khwa khwaH
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/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/kʰuɑ/ /kʰuɑH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		kuō kuò
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		fo1 fo3
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; 堂 c)
  3. classwork
  4. (literary) to check; to examine; to assess
  5. (modern) to pay for online goods or services

Synonyms

  • (to check):

Compounds

Further reading

Japanese

Kanji

課

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

Counter

課(か) • (-ka) 

  1. lessons
    第(だい)二(に)課(か)
    dai-ni-ka
    Lesson 2
  2. chapters of a book

Noun

課(か) • (ka) 

  1. lesson
  2. section, department[1]

Suffix

課(か) • (-ka) 

  1. section, department
  2. lesson

References

  1. ^ “課”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2024

Korean

Hanja

課 (eumhun 과정 과 (gwajeong gwa))

  1. hanja form? of 과 (“lesson”)
  2. hanja form? of 과 (“course”)
  3. hanja form? of 과 (“classwork”)

Vietnamese

Han character

課: Hán Nôm readings: khóa/khoá, khỏa/khoả, thỏa/thoả, thuở, thuả

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