ခု
Burmese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʰṵ/
- Romanization: MLCTS: hku. • ALA-LC: khu • BGN/PCGN: hku. • Okell: hkú
Verb
ခု • (hku.)
- to be supported by something (coming) from below
- to be dissatisfied with (someone)
- to be filling (until it's not enough to change the rice)
Noun
ခု • (hku.)
- the first term in a tenfold sequence starting with ခု (hku.), ဆယ် (hcai), the first number
- year
Classifier
ခု • (hku.)
- generic classifier used to count nouns
- မျက်မှန် တစ်ခု
- myakhman tachku.
- one pair of glasses
- စကားပုံ နှစ်ခု
- ca.ka:pum hnachku.
- two proverbs
- ကုလားထိုင် သုံးခု
- ku.la:htuing sum:hku.
- three chairs
- လက်မှတ် လေးခု
- lakhmat le:hku.
- four tickets
Noun
ခု • (hku.)
- recently, now.
Usage notes
Used with nouns that cannot be assigned to another classifier, and sometimes with nouns that could have been assigned to another classifier.
Mon
Verb
ခု (khu)
- to prop by a short prop or fulcrum.