Radical 木

12 strokes

tree 木 (10a) + fruit 果 (187) = number of trees 棵

A measure word for trees and plants. When the primary use of a character is as a measure word, we will give its meaning as “number of ” something (we did this for Character 19 and another example is coming up: Character 223 in the next chapter).

[三棵树 (3, 155) sān kē shù three trees]

Each tree only bore a few fruits so it took a number of trees to produce enough fruit for a pot of jam. / The giant used the whole crop to make his lemon curd.