棵 (kē) — for trees and plants (一棵樹 a tree)

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棵 character · A1 (est.)

棵＝木＋果

ㄎㄜ · kē

measure word — for trees and plants (一棵樹 a tree)

字源 FORM — what the parts do

木義a tree

果聲guǒ — gives the soundfruit on a tree

ITguǒ → kē — the reading shifted off the donor

Wood (木) with 果 guǒ, the sound. A word for a standing tree — now the measure word that counts them: 一棵樹. 果 carries the sound, shifted to kē. 果 also frames 課 kè and 顆 kē.

故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by

結著果（果）的一株樹（木）——一棵。

A single tree (木) hung with fruit (果) — one of them, one 棵.

字源記憶法

意 · Meanings

(本義)一棵樹— one tree (the standing plant)

→一棵、幾棵— the measure word for trees and plants常用

(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension