棵 (fo2 po1 | ke1) : classifier for plants

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棵

fo2 po1

ke1

classifier for plants, flowers and vegetables

Jyutping fo2 used to be literary reading; po1 has been colloquiual. Today, however, some people would say that 棵 is Mandarin only and should be read only as fo2 in Cantonese; and that 樖 [po1] has completely replaced 棵 in Cantonese.

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Stroke count: 13

Level: 2

Radical: 木 (#75)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

棵

This word has been viewed 8015 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by rathpy on 19th Mar 2007 05:54 and last edited on 2nd Sep 2013 04:57

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唔好為咗一棵樹,而放棄成個森林 m4 hou2 wai6 zo2 jat1 po1 syu6, ji4 fong3 hei3 seng4 go3 sam1 lam4 = don't focus on only one girl, hence give up other girls 粵

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有個人喺棵樹後面匿埋粵
There's someone hiding behind the tree.
[Lit. have [counter] person at [counter] tree behind-face hide]

個男仔挖起棵樹樁粵
The boy digs up a tree stump.
[Lit. [counter] man-child dig up [counter] tree-stump]

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國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese.
粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

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[big][url=http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/7558/]棵[/url][/big]
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<a href="http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/7558/" class="chinesemed" target="_blank">棵</a>
Decimal representation of this word: 棵
Unicode code for this character: U+68f5 (off-site link)

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