kē
grain
Phonosemantic compound. 果 represents the meaning and 頁 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 顆
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
classifier for small spheres, pearls, corn grains, teeth, hearts, satellites etc | ||
kernel |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 22.2649% of movies
1358th most common character in movies
1448th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 17 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9846 |
Shuowen | “顆，小頭也。从頁，果聲。” |
Sources
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