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颗 (kē): meaning and stroke order

颗 (kē) means classifier for small spheres, pearls, corn grains, teeth, hearts, satellites etc.

颗

Simplified
颗
Traditional
顆
Pinyin
kē

Stroke order of 颗

颗

  • kē classifier for small spheres, pearls, corn grains, teeth, hearts, satellites etc
  • 14 strokes
  • Traditional form: 顆

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 颗

  1. kē Traditional 顆
    • classifier for small spheres, pearls, corn grains, teeth, hearts, satellites etc

Radical and structure

颗
Radical 页 (Kangxi radical 181) in its simplified form · 14 strokes · 果 on the left, 页 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

颗 in our stories

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  • 庞师傅却摇了摇头，从柜子最里面拿出一只旧碗，碗上歪歪扭扭地排着十几颗铜钉。

    Páng shīfu què yáo le yáotóu cóng guìzi zuì lǐmiàn ná chū yì zhī jiù wǎn wǎn shàng wāiwāi-niǔniǔ de pái zhe shíjǐ kē tóng dīng

    But Master Pang shook his head and took an old bowl from the back of a cupboard; a dozen copper rivets ran crookedly across it.

    From the story Mending the bowl HSK 7–9 · Level 9

  • 回头看看刚才淋雨的地方，风雨已经过去，晴天也不必太高兴。对一颗平静的心来说，风雨和晴天其实没有什么分别。

    huítóu kànkan gāngcái lín yǔ de dìfang fēngyǔ yǐjīng guòqu qíngtiān yě búbì tài gāoxìng duì yì kē píngjìng de xīn láishuō fēngyǔ hé qíngtiān qíshí méiyǒu shénme fēnbié

    Looking back at where you were caught in the rain: the storm is over, and there's no need to be too delighted by the sunshine either. To a calm heart, storm and sunshine are really no different.

    From the story Neither wind and rain nor sunshine HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 颗

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).