Example sentences
wǒ我jīn今tiān天yǒu有liǎng两jié节kè课。
I have two lessons today.
xià下kè课hòu后wǒ我qù去chī吃fàn饭。
After class I go to eat.
The story behind the character
课
课 is 讠 (speech) with 果 on the right giving the sound. Xu Shen wrote 課，試也, so the first job of this character was to test or assess something, the way an official assesses a tax. Only later did it move into the classroom. Your 课 started life as an audit.