棵

棵

棵 U+68F5, 棵 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-68F5 ← 棴 [U+68F4] CJK Unified Ideographs 棶 → [U+68F6]

Translingual

Han character

棵 (radical 75, 木+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 木田木 (DWD), four-corner 4699₄, composition ⿰木果)

References

• KangXi: page 534, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14983
• Dae Jaweon: page 922, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1232, character 1
• Unihan data for U+68F5

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		棵

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kē (ke¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄜ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fo², fo¹, po¹
• Min Nan (POJ): kho / kher

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: kē
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄜ
    • Wade–Giles: k'o¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ke
    • IPA ^(key): /kʰɤ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: fo², fo¹, po¹
    • Yale: fó, fō, pō
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fo², fo¹, po¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: fo², fo¹, po¹
    • IPA ^(key): /fɔː³⁵/, /fɔː⁵⁵/, /pʰɔː⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kho
    • Tâi-lô: kho
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qoy
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /kʰo⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰo³³/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kher
    • Tâi-lô: kher
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰə³³/

Note:

• kho - literary;
• kher - vernacular.

Definitions

棵

1. Classifier for plants. ⇒ all nouns using this classifier

   有一棵芒果樹 / 有一棵芒果树  ―  yǒu yī kē mángguǒ shù  ―  There is a mango tree

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 棵 (“(classifier for plants)”) [map]
Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		本, 株
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		棵, 株
Mandarin	Beijing	棵
	Taiwan	棵
	Hailar	棵
	Ulan Hot	棵
	Tongliao	棵
	Chifeng	棵
	Bayanhot	棵
	Jinan	棵
	Muping	棵
	Luoyang	棵
	Wanrong	棵
	Xi'an	個, 棵
	Xining	棵
	Xuzhou	棵
	Yinchuan	棵
	Lanzhou	棵
	Ürümqi	棵
	Wuhan	棵
	Chengdu	根, 窩
	Guiyang	棵
	Liuzhou	樖, 蔸
	Yangzhou	棵
	Nanjing	棵
	Hefei	棵
	Nantong	棵
	Sokuluk (Gansu Dungan)	個
Cantonese	Guangzhou	樖
	Hong Kong	樖
	Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou)	樖, 蔸
	Hong Kong (Kam Tin Weitou)	樖
	Hong Kong (Ting Kok)	樖
	Hong Kong (Tung Ping Chau)	樖
	Macau	樖
	Panyu	樖
	Huadu (Huashan)	樖
	Conghua	樖
	Zengcheng	樖
	Foshan	樖
	Nanhai (Shatou)	樖
	Shunde	樖
	Sanshui	樖
	Gaoming (Mingcheng)	樖
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	樖
	Zhuhai (Qianshan)	樖
	Doumen (Shangheng Tanka)	蔸, 樖
	Doumen	蔸
	Jiangmen (Baisha)	蔸
	Xinhui	蔸
	Taishan	蔸
	Kaiping (Chikan)	蔸
	Enping (Niujiang)	蔸
	Heshan (Yayao)	蔸
	Dongguan	蔸
	Bao'an (Shajing)	樖
	Shaoguan	樖
	Yunfu	樖
	Yangjiang	蔸
	Xinyi	樖
	Lianjiang	棵
	Kuala Lumpur	樖
	Ho Chi Minh City	樖
Gan	Nanchang	蔸, 棵
	Lichuan	頭, 棵
	Pingxiang	隻, 蔸
Hakka	Meixian	條, 墩
	Xingning	條, 頭
	Huidong	樖
	Qujiang	樖
	Xiaosanjiang	根
	Changting	蔸
	Pingyu	頭
	Wuping	頭
	Liancheng	蔸, 叢
	Ninghua	頭
	Yudu	頭
	Ruijin	頭
	Shicheng	頭
	Shangyou	頭
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	頭
	Liudui (S. Sixian)	頭
	Hsinchu (Hailu)	頭
	Dongshi (Dabu)	頭
	Hsinchu (Raoping)	頭
	Yunlin (Zhao'an)	頭
	Hong Kong	樖
	Senai	樖
	Sabah (Longchuan)	樖
	Singkawang	頭
Huizhou	Jixi	棵
Jin	Taiyuan	朳, 棵
	Pingyao	朳
	Xinzhou	蔔
	Baochang	棵
	Jining	棵
	Hohhot	棵
	Baotou	棵
	Dongsheng	苗
	Linhe	苗
	Haibowan	棵
Min Bei	Jian'ou	叢
	Dikou	蔸
	Songxi	叢
	Zhenghe	叢
	Zhenqian	枝
	Jianyang	叢, 枝
	Wuyishan	叢
	Shibei	叢
Min Dong	Fuzhou	蔸
	Changle	蔸
	Fuqing	蔸
	Pingtan	蔸
	Yongtai	蔸
	Gutian	蔸
	Fu'an	蔸
	Ningde	蔸
	Shouning	蔸, 蓬
	Zhouning	蔸
	Fuding	蔸
Min Nan	Xiamen	叢
	Quanzhou	叢
	Jinjiang	叢
	Yongchun	叢
	Zhangzhou	叢
	Changtai	叢
	Taipei	叢
	Kaohsiung	叢
	Tainan	叢
	Taichung	叢
	Hsinchu	叢
	Lukang	叢
	Sanxia	叢
	Yilan	叢
	Kinmen	叢
	Magong	叢
	Penang	叢
	Singapore	叢
	Longyan	頭
	Zhangping (Yongfu)	叢
	Datian	蔸
	Chaozhou	叢
	Johor Bahru	叢
	Haikou	叢
	Leizhou	叢
Puxian Min	Putian	蔸
	Xianyou	蔸
Pinghua	Nanning	蔸
Shehua	Fu'an	蔸
	Fuding	蔸
	Luoyuan	蔸
	Sanming	蔸
	Shunchang	蔸
	Hua'an	蔸
	Guixi	蔸
	Cangnan	蔸
	Jingning	蔸
	Lishui	蔸
	Longyou	蔸
	Fengshun	蔸
Wu	Shanghai	棵
	Suzhou	棵
	Wuxi	棵
	Hangzhou	棵
	Wenzhou	株
	Chongming	棵
	Danyang	棵
	Jinhua	根
	Ningbo	棵
Xiang	Changsha	棵, 隻
	Shuangfeng	隻
	Xiangtan	線
	Loudi	蔸

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kě (ke³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄜˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: kě
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄜˇ
    • Wade–Giles: k'o³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kee
    • IPA ^(key): /kʰɤ²¹⁴/

Definitions

棵

1. a kind of chopping board

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 棵 – see 梡 (“tray for carrying sacrificial meat”). (This character, 棵, is a variant form of 梡.)

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Japanese

Kanji

棵

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: かん (kan)
• Kan-on: か (ka)
• Kun: きぎれ (kigire)

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Vietnamese

Han character

棵 (quả, khoả)

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