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(ke4) , kēi(kei1) // pronunciations of 刻 in Mandarin Pinyin

Basic information about 刻

Unihan definition: carve, engrave; quarter hour

Number of strokes: 8
Examples of other characters consisting of 8 strokes: , , , , , , , , ,

Radical:  18.6

HSK level: 3
Other HSK 3 characters: , , , , , , , , , more hsk 3 charaters »

Frequency rank: 618

General standard index number: 1224

Examples of words containing this character: 光刻, 刻剥, 刻印, 刻写, 刻度, 刻意, 刻日, 刻期, 刻本, 刻板, 刻毒, 刻版, 刻画, 刻痕, 刻苦, 刻薄, 刻录, 刻骨, 即刻, 少刻, 尖刻, 崖刻, 时刻, 木刻, 此刻

English translation (based on CEDICT):

刻[]:
- quarter (hour)
- moment
- to carve
- to engrave
- to cut
- oppressive
- classifier for short time intervals

Details

Unicode code point: U+523B

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