Memory phrase for the character: 箇


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Meaning

a piece, item (counter)

Pronunciation

KA, KO

Explanation

Top: bamboo 竹, below: hard 固 (Some things 囗 [=meat, some vegetable] with age 古 become hard 固)

Mnemonic


 
Bamboo is hard and thus suitable as an: item counter.

Radicals

bamboo
hard, firmOutside a frame 囗, which stands as a placeholder for things that become hard with age 古, such as the meat of old animals or old vegetables/roots. In other words: "things" that are old are also hard.
enclosureThe radical kunigamae surrounds/encloses further components and thus differs from the simple square that stands for mouth 口.
oldPicture of a gravestone
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 Vocabulary

箇条書 かじょうがき  itemized form, itemization


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