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

課

  • Meaning

    課 means "lesson, section, to 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.

  • Words using 課

    • 課題 かだい Listen subject; theme; issue
    • 課長 かちょう Listen section manager; section chief
    • 課税 かぜい Listen taxation
    • 課程 かてい Listen course; curriculum
    • 課する かする Listen to impose (a tax, fine, etc.); to levy; to assign (a task, duty, etc.)
    • 課徴金 かちょうきん Listen charges (i.e. fees)
    • 放課後 ほうかご Listen after school (at the end of the day)
    • 修士課程 しゅうしかてい Listen master's course

  • Four-character idioms with 課

    • 人事考課 じんじこうか Listen merit (ability, efficiency) rating; employee performance evaluation

  • Tattoo check: 課

    • Verified meaning: lesson, section, to assign
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • 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

    tip

    ka(カ) カ

  • Kunyomi

    tip
    none

  • Strokes

    tip

    15 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    言 (gen・gomben・kotoba)

  • Related Keywords

    lesson section to assign attempt test examine division course curriculum department education instruction learning lecture module study subject task teaching training unit

Sentences including 課

  • Let's play baseball after school.

  • When i was a little child , i used to play baseball after school.

  • I often play tennis after school.

  • Let's start with lesson ten.

  • She plays tennis after school every day.

  • We will discuss that later.

  • What's the assignment for tomorrow?

  • They are going to play baseball after school.

  • I almost always play baseball after school.

  • She plays tennis after school.

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