# 果 — Fruit

Frequency rank 249 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 楽 (Comfort), less common than 色 (Color).

- On’yomi: か
- Kun’yomi: くだ、は
- Radical: 木 Tree (Kangxi 75)
- Frequency path: Level II of XX

All summer the truck-killing tree pushes one heavy globe out along its crossbar of branches, until the wood gives and the fruit bursts on a bonnet, washing seed and pulp down the windscreen.

In words:

- 果物 くだもの — fruit
- 果て はて — the end;the extremity;the limit(s);the result
- 果して はたして — as was expected,really

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