U+8AB2 "課" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+8AB2 "課" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in multiple East Asian languages, including Japanese, Korean, and Chinese, where it primarily refers to a lesson, a class, a course, or a section of study, such as a textbook chapter. In Japanese, it appears in compounds like 授業 (jūgyō, meaning "class" or "lesson") and is also a counter for lessons, while in Chinese, it denotes a subject or a unit of instruction, such as in 课程 (kèchéng, "curriculum" or "course"). The character is composed of the radical 言 (speech) on the left and the phonetic component 果 (fruit) on the right, reflecting its historical semantic link to recitation or examination. This character is also used in formal contexts for administrative divisions, like departments or sections, and appears in words for homework or taxation in some languages, demonstrating its broad functional range in East Asian writing systems.