刻

Translingual

Han character

刻 (radical 18 刀+6, 8 strokes, cangjie input 卜人中弓 (YOLN), four-corner 0280₀)

1. carve, engrave
2. quarter hour
3. a moment in time

References

• KangXi: page 139, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1970
• Dae Jaweon: page 316, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 337, character 2
• Unihan data for U+523B

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Cantonese

Hanzi

刻 (Yale haak1, hak1)

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Japanese

Kanji

刻 (grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: こく (koku)
• Kun: きざむ (kizamu), きざみ (kizami), とき (toki)

Compounds

• 刻印
• 刻限

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Korean

Hanja

刻 (hangeul 각, revised gak, McCune-Reischauer kak)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

刻 (pinyin kè (ke4), qì (qi4), Wade-Giles k'o⁴, ch'i⁴)

Compounds

• 刻本
• 刻薄
• 刻不容缓
• 刻毒
• 刻度
• 刻骨
• 刻画
• 刻记
• 刻刻
• 刻苦
• 刻镂
• 刻石
• 刻丝
• 刻下
• 刻写
• 刻削
• 刻意
• 刻印
• 刻制
• 刻舟求剑
• 刻字

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Vietnamese

刻 (khắc, gắt, khắt, khấc, lắc)