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kē

Meanings

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kē
  1. 1.(literary) branch; stem; stalk
  2. 2.(literary) ax handle
Kē
  1. 1.surname Ke

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.axe handle
  2. 2.stalk; branch
  3. 3.a surname
  4. 4.Lithocarpus; stone oak
  5. 5.fibrous; stringy; tough; withered
  6. 6.dry; dried up; unmoist
  7. 7.lost one's youthfulness; old
  8. 8.copper coin
  9. 9.yuan (unit of currency)

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *kaːl): semantic 木 (“tree”) + phonetic 可 (OC *kʰaːlʔ). Same word as 牁 (OC *kaːl, “mooring post for a boat”) and related to 軻 (OC *kʰaːl, *kʰaːlʔ, *kʰaːls, “a pair of wheels upon an axle tree”); perhaps related to 幹 (OC *kaːns, “stem, support”) but distinct from 竿 (OC *kaːn, “pole”) (Schuessler, 2007).

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Stroke order

Components

柯木可

Components from cjk-decomp · MIT

Example sentences

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Synonyms

圓元塊₁蚊蚊雞雞士個銀度嘢雞皮文箍吊盾塊₂個銀

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Derived terms

南柯南柯一夢南柯一梦古柯尼柯西亞尼柯西亚柯克亞柯克亚柯則柯则柯化柯南柯坪柯子柯打柯欽柯钦柯爾克孜柯尔克孜柯駕柯驾牂柯

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Related words

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