刻
Stroke order
Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).
Meaning
engrave, cut fine, chop, hash, mince, time, carving
English glosses from KANJIDIC2.
Readings
- On (Sino-Japanese)
- コクElem.
- Kun (native)
- きざ(む)Elem.
- きざ(み)
- Other languages
- 拼音ke4
- 拼音ke1
- 한글gag
- Hán-ViệtKhắc
Labels show the school stage at which each Jōyō reading is taught.
Basics
- Strokes
- 8 strokes
- Radical
- 刀(かたな)
- JIS level
- Level 1
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 2
- Unicode
U+523B
Components
Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.
Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰亥刂
Words using this kanji
- 刻むきざむ「きざむ」を参照。to mince, to cut fine, to chop up, to hash
- 刻こくperiod of time (usu. a period of approx. two hours corresponding to one of the signs of the Chinese zodiac), carving, engraving, cutting
- 刻みきざみmincing, cutting, chopping, notch
- 刻々こっこくmoment by moment, hour by hour
- 刻一刻こくいっこく時間の経過に従い。次第に。moment by moment, hour by hour
- 刻々ギザギザnotches, serration, indentation, jaggies (stair-step artifacts in computer images)
- 刻印こくいん印として文字などを刻むこと。また、その印。engraving a seal, engraved seal, inscribed seal, engraving
- 刻きざscratch
- 刻下こっか今。現在。目下。the present
- 刻苦こっく苦しみに堪えて努力すること。hard work
- 刻限こくげん定められた時刻。定刻。time, appointed time
- 刻字こくじある物に文字を彫刻すること。また、そのような文字。carving characters, carved characters
- 刻本こくほんwood-block book
- 刻子コーツ「コーツ」を参照。pung, three-of-a-kind
- 刻銘こくめい金属製品や石（石造物）などに年月日や名前などの文字を刻むこと。inscription on stone monuments, metal receptacles, etc., exergue, inscribing
- 刻舟こくしゅうnot getting with the times, being unaware of how things are changing
- 刻器こっき物に彫刻を施すための器具。burin
- 刻み目きざみめnotch, nick, marks on a ruler
- 刻み足きざみあしmincing steps
- 刻々にこっこくにmoment by moment, hour by hour
Words starting with this kanji, most common first.
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Lookup codes
- SKIP
1-6-2- Four Corner
0280.0- Spahn–Hadamitzky
2f6.7- Heisig
- 1639
- Nelson
- 681