棵 (kē) — (classifier) for trees, cabbages, plants, and other growing vegetation
Definition
A measure word for individual plants — trees, cabbages, blades of grass. Use 棵 for whole growing plants, not for flowers (use 朵) or fruit (use 个).
classifier
for treescabbagesplantsand other growing vegetation
Easily confused
- 课kèlook-alikeclass; lesson; subject; course
- 科kēsound-alike(noun) subject, discipline, field of study
- 裸luǒlook-alike(verb) to be naked; to be bare
- 磕kēsound-aliketo knock, to tap (against sth hard)
- 颗kēlook-alike(classifier) for small roundish objects such as pearls, grains, teeth, hearts, stars, satellites
- 裹guǒlook-aliketo wrap (up); to bundle
Examples
- 棵。Lù biān zhǒng le jǐ kē xiǎo shù.A few small trees were planted by the roadside.
- 棵。Zhè kē cǎo cháng dé zhēn kuài.This blade of grass grows really fast.
- 棵。Tā mǎi le sān kē bái cài huí lái.He bought three heads of cabbage back.
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