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Kanji Detail for 柯 - "handle, branch, stem"
柯
- Meaning
柯 means "handle, branch, stem."
Handle - The shaft of an axe.
Branch - A limb of a tree.
Stem - The stalk of a plant.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
handle
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
axe-handle; stalk, bough; surname
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
surname Ke
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
axe-handle, bough, stalk; surname
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
An axe handle. From "Book of Odes": "How do you hew an axe handle? Without an axe it cannot be done. How do you take a wife? Without a matchmaker it cannot be done." Hence later, matchmaking was called 執柯. Also from "Confucius's Guishan Melody": "Without an axe handle in hand, what can be done about Guishan?" This metaphor says the Ji family overshadowed the ruler like Guishan overshadowed Lu, and without political power, nothing could be done. Hence authority came to be called 斧柯, based on this. | The stems and branches of plants are all called 柯. Such as 金柯玉葉 (golden stems and jade leaves). One plant is also called 一柯. Tang dynasty Chunyu Fen dreamed of entering the Kingdom of Huai'an and governing the Nanke Prefecture, which was actually an ant nest in the old pagoda tree south of his house. From "Yiwen Lu." Hence dreams are called 南柯 (Nanke), based on this.
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