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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 課

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
课 kè - subject
- course
- CL:門|门[men2]
- class
- lesson
- CL:堂[tang2],節|节[jie2]
- to levy
- tax
- form of divination

List Ranking for: 课

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2025) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
2 1 1,290 1,746 884

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

⿰ 讠 果

Radical:

讠

Type:

Pictophonetic

Phonetic:

果

Semantic:

讠

Hint:

Speech

Other Words Containing 课

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2025) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
课 2 1 1,290 1,746 884
上课 - 1 2,817 3,271 1,306
课程 5 4 3,231 2,931 5,228
功课 6 4 6,125 11,980 8,864
课堂 - 4 8,414 5,448 7,618
下课 - 1 10,477 8,926 5,019
代课 - - 13,281 30,293 28,251
逃课 - - 13,371 20,050 8,127
课题 6 6 13,544 4,766 15,027
课本 - 3 14,989 11,114 9,707
课外 - - 16,346 14,210 22,198
讲课 - - 17,666 13,613 11,753
教课 - - 19,732 - -
课间 - - 24,743 30,952 19,709
旷课 6 7 25,309 40,359 22,049
课程表 - - 25,944 62,199 43,088
授课 - - 26,362 14,069 21,467
听课 - - 26,381 16,642 9,979
停课 - - 27,113 31,703 23,221
课余 - - 27,549 26,924 44,266
补课 - 6 29,319 15,104 9,415
课长 - - 29,653 - -
课时 - - 29,772 21,895 26,022
开课 - - 31,015 28,928 24,223
课桌 - - 32,373 26,517 21,020
选修课 - - 39,385 27,111 17,687
必修课 - - 40,766 23,190 15,959
备课 - 7 41,969 25,908 28,350
课表 - - 46,610 53,573 24,930
课文 - 3 46,692 13,747 15,031
课业 - - 46,811 38,463 49,298
任课 - - 48,539 35,696 34,323
选课 - - 52,781 32,332 15,451
课间操 - - 76,439 64,026 41,990
罢课 - - 79,436 54,206 50,539