克

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See also: 剋

Translingual[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Unclear – similar origin to 兄, with additional stroke at top, now a 十 (cross).

Also Simplified from 剋.

Han character[edit]

克 (radical 10 儿+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 十口竹山 (JRHU), four-corner 40216, composition ⿱古儿)

  1. transliteration for /k/ or /ko/
  2. gram, gramme
  3. to overcome, to subdue, to overthrow
  4. to restrain
  5. to be able to
  6. Ke (c. 2000 BC), the seventh of the legendary Flame Emperors (炎帝, Yándì) descended from the farmer god Shennong

Related characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 124, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1355
  • Dae Jaweon: page 263, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 269, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+514B

See also[edit]

Cantonese[edit]

Hanzi[edit]

克 (Jyutping haak1, hak1, Yale haak1, hak1)

Noun[edit]

克 (traditional and simplified, Jyutping hak1)

  1. gram

See also[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

See also:
克

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

克 (geuk) (hangeul [[극]], revised geuk, McCune-Reischauer kŭk)

Mandarin[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Hanzi[edit]

克 (Pinyin kè (ke4), Wade-Giles k'o4)

Compounds[edit]

List:

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

克 (khắc)

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