課

See also: 课

Translingual

Han character

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

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

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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.

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 課

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

Further reading

• “Entry #11386”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

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Japanese

Kanji

課

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: か (ka, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: か (ka, Jōyō)
• Kun: こころみる (kokoromiru, 課みる)

Counter

課(か) or 課(counter) • (ka or counter) [[Category:Japanese
|か]]

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

Suffix

課(か) or 課(suffix) • (ka or suffix) [[Category:Japanese
|か]]

1. section, department
2. lesson

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Korean

Hanja

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

1. lesson
2. course
3. classwork

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 課 (khoá, khoả, thoả, thuở, thuả)

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