Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

科: department, course

Also: section

JLPT N39 strokesGrade 2Your ink: 白 Not met

禾 carries the meaning · 斗 is drawn in

9 strokes
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

One reading, and the words that use it

カka · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 科学かがくscience
  • 科目かもく(school) subject
  • 学科がっかcourse of study
  • 理科りかscience
  • 百科事典ひゃっかじてんencyclopedia
  • 内科ないかinternal medicine
  • 外科げかsurgical department
  • 歯科しかdentistry
  • 小児科しょうにかpediatrics
  • 前科ぜんかcriminal record

Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)禾 (sound) + 斗 measuring tool (meaning)

Source: Wiktionary, 科 (rev. 93556140), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“The harvest is ready! Imagine a field of golden rice bowing its head in the autumn breeze.”
More in the 禾 grain story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
禾

Also built on grain (禾)

All 32
斗

Also built on measuring cup (斗)

All 3

Also read カ

44 kanji share this on'yomiAll 44
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · kē

Same form: 科 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
科 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
科 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin kē most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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