课
Meaning
- subject
- course
- class
Measure word
门 mén
Example sentence
她缺课了。
She was absent from class.
The character 课
课 is 讠, speech, beside 果, fruit: the lesson as what teaching yields. 上课 and 下课 open and close it, 课本 is the textbook, 功课 the homework, and it counts itself — 第三课, lesson three.