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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
kē | ke1
English translation
classifier for trees, cabbages, plants etc
measure word for trees

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Number of strokes

12

Traditional form

Contains the radical

Part of speech

Isolated measure word / 量词 liàng cí Liàngcí

Learning hint

tree

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

木果

Semantic compound

Phonetic compound

guǒ

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and guǒ represents the sound.

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他们 tā men zài Hòu 花园 huā yuán yǒu 棵极 hǎo de 桦树 huà shù .

They've got a wonderful birch in the back garden.

车道 chē dào rào Guò lǎo shù lái le 急转弯 jí zhuǎn wān .

The driveway makes a hook around an old tree.

我们 wǒmen 必须 bìxū 这棵 lǎo shù dǎo .

We shall have to saw the old tree down.

zhè lǎo shù 仍然 réngrán 每年 měi nián jiē 苹果 píngguǒ .

This old tree still yields apples every year.

lǎo shù Cóng 地面 dì miàn dào 树梢 shù shāo 至少 zhìshǎo yǒu 30.

That old tree must measure at least 30 metres from top to bottom.

Words with

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
classifier for trees, cabbages, plants etc
塌棵菜 tā kē cài Chinese flat cabbage塌棵菜 tā kē cài

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Decomposition

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