Measure word
- 节 jié joint; node; (bound form) section; segment; solar term (one of the 24 divisions of the year in the traditional Chinese... attested
- 堂 táng (main) hall; large room for a specific purpose; CL:間|间[jian1]; relationship between cousins etc on the paternal side of... attested
- 门 mén gate; door; CL:扇[shan4]; gateway; doorway; CL:個|个[ge4]; opening; valve; switch; way to do something; knack; family... attested
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 課, the traditional character: 课 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Clerical script 西晉 - See all 4 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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8月份没课。
There is no school during August.
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上星期有五个人缺课。
Last week five students were absent from class.
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上课时她是我们的老师，下课以后是我们的朋友，而且是很好的朋友。
In class she's our teacher; after class she's our friend, and a good friend too.
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下课了吗？
You get out of class?
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人上课时安静意味着他尊重他人的睡眠。
To be quiet in class is to respect other people's sleep.
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今天下午我有两个小时的英语课和两个小时的汉语课。
This afternoon I have English class for two hours and then two hours of Chinese.
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今天许多学校因为风暴停课。
Many schools are closed today because of the storm.
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他们一周上3节英语课。
They have English lessons three times a week.