刻 (kè)
to carve/quarter (of an hour)
How 刻 is written
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 亠 — lid
- Traditional
- 刻
- Simplified
- 刻 (unchanged)
Components
- 亠 lid
- 丨 line
- ㇙ N/A
- 人 human
- 刂 knife
Common words using 刻
- 時刻 shíkè
- moment; CL:個|个[ge4]; constantly
- 此刻 cǐkè
- this moment; now; at present
- 銘刻 míngkè
- a carved inscription
- 刻意 kèyì
- meticulous; painstaking; deliberate
- 刻骨 kègǔ
- ingrained; entrenched; deep-rooted
- 刻骨銘心 kègǔmíngxīn
- lit. carved in bones and engraved in the heart (idiom); fig. etched in one's memory; unforgettable
- 即刻 jíkè
- immediately; instant; instantly
- 時時刻刻 shíshíkèkè
- at all times
- 深刻 shēnkè
- profound; deep; deep-going
- 片刻 piànkè
- short period of time; a moment
- 立刻 lìkè
- forthwith; immediate; prompt
- 苛刻 kēkè
- harsh; pitiless
刻 in a sentence
他在木頭上刻了自己的名字。
Tā zài mùtou shàng kè le zìjǐ de míngzi.
“He carved his name on the wood.”
How common is 刻?
刻 is the 618th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 80.3% of all running text.
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