ခု

Burmese

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kʰṵ/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: hku. • ALA-LC: khu • BGN/PCGN: hku. • Okell: hkú

Verb

ခု • (hku.)

  1. to be supported by something (coming) from below
  2. to be dissatisfied with (someone)
  3. to be filling (until it's not enough to change the rice)

Noun

ခု • (hku.)

  1. the first term in a tenfold sequence starting with ခု (hku.), ဆယ် (hcai), the first number
  2. year

Classifier

ခု • (hku.)

  1. generic classifier used to count nouns
    မျက်မှန် တစ်ခု
    myakhman tachku.
    one pair of glasses
    စကားပုံ နှစ်ခု
    ca.ka:pum hnachku.
    two proverbs
    ကုလားထိုင် သုံးခု
    ku.la:htuing sum:hku.
    three chairs
    လက်မှတ် လေးခု
    lakhmat le:hku.
    four tickets

Noun

ခု • (hku.)

  1. recently, now.

Usage notes

Used with nouns that cannot be assigned to another classifier, and sometimes with nouns that could have been assigned to another classifier.

Mon

Verb

ခု (khu)

  1. to prop by a short prop or fulcrum.
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