Kanji Detail for 課 - "lesson, section, assign"

課

Jōyō Kanji
Kyōiku Kanji

JLPT N2

ES grade 4

Meaning
課 means "lesson, section, assign."
1. Test - To try; to examine.
2. Assign - To allocate; to distribute.
3. Section - A department; a division of work.
4. Lesson - A portion of study or curriculum.
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

chapter; lesson; section; department; division; counter for chapters (of a book)

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

lesson; course; classwork

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

subject; course; CL:門|门[men2]; class; lesson; CL:堂[tang2],節|节[jie2]; to levy; tax; form of divination

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

subject, lesson, course; classwork

XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

All that has fixed procedures to test and examine is called 課. Such as 考課 (evaluation), 功課 (coursework). | Taxes. Supervising taxes is called 課. Therefore all taxes are called 課. Such as 鹽課 (salt tax), 茶課 (tea tax). | A name for divination. Such as 六壬課 (six-ren divination), 文王課 (King Wen divination).
Onyomi

ka(か)
Kunyomi

haka.ru(はかる)

kokoro.miru(こころみる)

waria.teru(わりあてる)
Strokes

15 strokes
Radical

言 (gen・gomben・kotoba)
Related Keywords
lesson section department division assign task duty subject course chapter unit class test examine impose levy tax charge work responsibility

放課後に野球をしよう。
Let's play baseball after school.
子供のころ私は放課後に野球をしたものだ。
When i was a little child , i used to play baseball after school.
私はよく放課後にテニスをする。
I often play tennis after school.
１０課から始めましょう。
Let's start with lesson ten.
彼女は毎日放課後にテニスをします。
She plays tennis after school every day.
その課題に関しては、あとで議論しよう。
We will discuss that later.
明日の課題は何ですか。
What's the assignment for tomorrow?
彼らは放課後野球をするつもりです。
They are going to play baseball after school.
僕は放課後にはたいてい野球をする。
I almost always play baseball after school.
彼女は、放課後テニスをします。
She plays tennis after school.