个

See also 個, and 箇

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

simplified	个
traditional	個

Etymology

Simplified from 個.

Han character

个 (radical 2 丨+2, 3 strokes, cangjie input 人中 (OL), four-corner 8020.0)

1. numerary adjunct, piece (counter word)
2. single

See also

• 介

References

• KangXi: page 78, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 70
• Dae Jaweon: page 158, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 103, character 1
• Unihan data for U+4E2A

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Cantonese

Hanzi

个 (traditional 個, jyutping go3, Yale go3)

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Japanese

See also 箇, 個

Kanji

个 (uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. counter for articles
2. individual

Readings

• On: か (ka), こ (ko)
• Kun: こ (ko), ひ (hi)

References

JIS: 5024 Kuten: 4804 Shift JIS: 98A2 EUC-JP: D0A4 Frequency: not ranked Nelson: 340

New Nelson: 25 Halpern: 1959 Halpern Learners: not listed Heisig: not listed Tuttle Kanji Dictionary: 6f8.15

1. Source: EDICT and KANJIDIC files licensed by the Electronic Dictionaries Research Group.

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Korean

Etymology

Pronunciation 개 came from a confusion with 介. 个 is a variant of 個, and its pronunciation would have been 고 as in 固, 凅, 痼, etc.

Hanja

个
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 개 (revised: gae, ga, McCune-Reischauer: kae, ka, Yale: kay, ka)

• Name (hangeul): 낱 개()

• Meaning: small piece

• 개 (gae; original pronunciation 가 (ga))
• 낱 개 (nat gae)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

个 (traditional 個, pinyin gè (ge4), Wade-Giles ko⁴)

Measure word

个 (simplified, Pinyin gè, traditional 個)

1. the most commonly used measure word. Often used in place of all other measure words, particularly when the correct measure word is not known by the speaker.

Compounds

• 个别
• 个个
• 个儿
• 个人
• 个体
• 个性
• 个子