箇

See also: 個 and 个

Translingual

Han character

箇 (radical 118 竹+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 竹田十口 (HWJR), four-corner 8860₃, composition ⿱⺮固)

1. numerary adjunct, piece
2. single

Descendants

• ヶ (abbreviation of 箇 as Japanese counter)

References

• KangXi: page 886, character 36
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26116
• Dae Jaweon: page 1314, character 30
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2983, character 1
• Unihan data for U+7B87

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Chinese

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trad.		箇
simp.		个

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gè (ge⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄜˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): go³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: gè
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄜˋ
    • Wade-Giles: ko⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: geh
    • IPA ^(key): /kɤ⁵¹/

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: go³
    • Yale: go
    • Cantonese Pinyin: go³
    • IPA ^(key): /kɔː³³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (箇, reconstructed)
Character (箇), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 見 (28) Final: 歌 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 古賀切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/kɑH/	/kɑH/	/kɑH/	/kɑH/	/kaH/	/kɑH/	/kɑH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (箇, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
箇								gè								‹ kaH ›								/*kˤa[r]-s/								piece, item
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
箇					4207					古					歌					1					箇					/*kaːls/

Classifier

箇 (simplified, Pinyin gè, traditional 個 or 箇, simplified 个)

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.

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Japanese

Kanji

箇

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

• Normally written as ヶ when used as a counter for months

Readings

• On: か (ka), こ (ko)

Counter

箇 (katakana ヶ, romaji -ヶ)

1. used with numbers in the ichi-ni-san counting system

Alternative forms

• ヵ
• 個
• 个

Usage notes

It is often written in katakana with a small ke, but it is always pronounced as "ka."

Derived terms

• ヶ月
• ヶ国語

Counter

箇 (hiragana こ, romaji -ko)

1. 個: articles

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Hanja

箇 (gae) (hangeul 개, revised gae, McCune-Reischauer kae, Yale kay)

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Vietnamese

Counter

箇

1. Han form of cái

Adjective

箇

1. Han form of cái