課

See also: 课

課 U+8AB2, 課 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8AB2 ← 誱 [U+8AB1] CJK Unified Ideographs 誳 → [U+8AB3]

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

• 𢸠 𥌥 𣋾

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

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kè (ke⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄜˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fo³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): kho
• Northern Min (KCR): kua̿
• Eastern Min (BUC): kuó
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): kor⁴
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): khò / khò͘ / khè / khòe

  (Teochew, Peng'im): kuê³

  (Leizhou, Leizhou Pinyin): ko³

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵khu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: kè
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄜˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: kè
    • Wade–Giles: kʻo⁴
    • Yale: kè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: keh
    • Palladius: кэ (kɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰɤ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: fo³
    • Yale: fo
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fo³
    • Guangdong Romanization: fo³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɔː³³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kho
    • Hakka Romanization System: ko
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ko⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /kʰo⁵⁵/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: kua̿
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰua³³/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: kuó
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰuɔ²¹³/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian, Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: kor⁴
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: ko̤̍
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰɒ⁴²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khò
    • Tâi-lô: khò
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qoix
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰo⁴¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰɤ²¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /kʰo²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kʰo¹¹/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khò͘
    • Tâi-lô: khòo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qox
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰɔ⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khè
    • Tâi-lô: khè
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qex
    • IPA (Taipei): /kʰe¹¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kʰe²¹/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khòe
    • Tâi-lô: khuè
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qoex
    • IPA (Kaohsiung, Zhangzhou): /kʰue²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kʰue¹¹/

Note:

• khò/khò͘ - literary;
• khè/khòe - vernacular.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: kuê³
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: khuè
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰue²¹³/
• (Leizhou)
  • Leizhou Pinyin: ko³
  • Sinological IPA: /kʰɔ²¹/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁵khu
    • MiniDict: khu^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²khu
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /kʰu³⁴/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 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/

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• Middle Chinese: khwa, khwaH

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

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʰloːl/, /*kʰloːls/

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):

edit

• 審 / 审 (shěn)
• 審批 / 审批 (shěnpī, “to examine and approve”)
• 審查 / 审查 (shěnchá)
• 審核 / 审核 (shěnhé)
• 審計 / 审计 (shěnjì) (accounting, to audit)
• 對證 / 对证 (duìzhèng)
• 查對 / 查对 (cháduì)
• 查驗 / 查验 (cháyàn)
• 核可 (hékě, “to examine and approve”)
• 核定 (hédìng)
• 核對 / 核对 (héduì)
• 考查 (kǎochá)
• 考核 (kǎohé)

Compounds

• 上課 / 上课 (shàngkè)
• 下課 / 下课 (xiàkè)
• 五堂功課 / 五堂功课
• 代課 / 代课 (dàikè)
• 修課 / 修课 (xiūkè)
• 做功課 / 做功课 (zuò gōngkè)
• 停課 / 停课 (tíngkè)
• 兵役課 / 兵役课
• 兼課 / 兼课 (jiānkè)
• 功課 / 功课 (gōngkè)
• 功課表 / 功课表
• 卜課 / 卜课 (bǔkè)
• 占課
• 名實相課 / 名实相课
• 囫圇課 / 囫囵课
• 基礎課程 / 基础课程
• 夜課 / 夜课
• 大課 / 大课 (dàkè)
• 天課 / 天课
• 學課錢 / 学课钱
• 官課 / 官课
• 導修課 / 导修课 (dǎoxiūkè)
• 工課 / 工课
• 引課 / 引课
• 循名課實 / 循名课实
• 推計課稅 / 推计课税
• 排課 / 排课 (páikè)
• 授課 / 授课 (shòukè)
• 文王課 / 文王课
• 日省月課 / 日省月课
• 日課 / 日课 (rìkè)
• 早課 / 早课
• 晚課 / 晚课
• 曠課 / 旷课 (kuàngkè)
• 會課 / 会课
• 朝暮課誦 / 朝暮课诵
• 正課 / 正课
• 清課 / 清课
• 發課 / 发课
• 督課 / 督课
• 稅課 / 税课
• 窗課 / 窗课
• 第二課堂 / 第二课堂
• 缺課 / 缺课 (quēkè)
• 罷課 / 罢课 (bàkè)
• 聽課 / 听课 (tīngkè)
• 自課 / 自课
• 茶課 / 茶课
• 補課 / 补课 (bǔkè)
• 訛言課語 / 讹言课语
• 課入 / 课入
• 課勸 / 课劝
• 課卷 / 课卷
• 課命 / 课命
• 課員 / 课员
• 課嘴撩牙 / 课嘴撩牙
• 課堂 / 课堂 (kètáng)
• 課外 / 课外 (kèwài)
• 課外活動 / 课外活动
• 課外讀物 / 课外读物
• 課外輔導 / 课外辅导
• 課役 / 课役
• 課後輔導 / 课后辅导
• 課徵 / 课征
• 課文 / 课文 (kèwén)
• 課時 / 课时 (kèshí)
• 課本 / 课本 (kèběn)
• 課業 / 课业 (kèyè)
• 課業輔導 / 课业辅导
• 課牙 / 课牙
• 課目 / 课目
• 課程 / 课程 (kèchéng)
• 課稅 / 课税 (kèshuì)
• 課稅所得 / 课税所得
• 課程表 / 课程表 (kèchéngbiǎo)
• 課算 / 课算
• 課藝 / 课艺
• 課表 / 课表 (kèbiǎo)
• 課試 / 课试 (kèshì)
• 課語訛言 / 课语讹言
• 調課 / 调课
• 課金 / 课金 (kèjīn)
• 課銀 / 课银
• 課錢 / 课钱
• 課長 / 课长 (kèzhǎng)
• 課頭 / 课头
• 課題 / 课题 (kètí)
• 課餘 / 课余 (kèyú)
• 課馬 / 课马
• 講課 / 讲课 (jiǎngkè)
• 起課 / 起课 (qǐkè)
• 蹺課 / 跷课
• 蹭課 / 蹭课 (cèngkè)
• 逃課 / 逃课 (táokè)
• 選課 / 选课 (xuǎnkè)
• 重複課稅 / 重复课税
• 量能課稅 / 量能课税
• 開課 / 开课 (kāikè)
• 馬前課 / 马前课
• 鹽課 / 盐课

Further reading

• “課”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.
• “課”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[2], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) “课”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 129.

Japanese

Kanji

課

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: か (ka, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: か (ka, Jōyō)
• Kun: わりあてる (wariateru, 課てる)、はかる (hakaru, 課る)、こころみる (kokoromiru, 課みる)

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

Suffix

課(か) • (-ka) 

1. section, department
2. lesson

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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