[measure word]

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
亻 meaning component

  Meaning component

rén

  

person

is a component form of .

固 sound component

  Sound component

  

to become solid

Definitions

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numerary adjunct, piece; single; individual; this; that; size; classifier for people or objects in general

Most common words with 個
Freq.
Word
Meaning

this

这个

this

那个

that one

个人

individual

整个

whole

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*kˤa[r]-s

kaH

piece, item


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 99.9840% of movies

14th most common character in movies

12th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Simplified

Unicode

U+500B


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