刻 kè
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 刂 — knife
- Made of
- 亥 12th terrestrial branch 刂 knife
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
刻
kè
quarter hour (time measure word)
Character
Example phrases
- 现在八点一刻。 Xiànzài bā diǎn yí kè. It is a quarter past eight now.
- 请等一刻。 Qǐng děng yí kè. Please wait fifteen minutes.
- 他刻了字。 Tā kè le zì. He carved characters.
Related words
- 立刻 lìkè immediately
- 深刻 shēnkè deep; profound
- 时刻 shíkè moment; all the time
- 此刻 cǐkè at this moment
- 刻 kè to carve
- 遍 biàn once (measure word for actions)
- 公里 gōnglǐ kilometer
- 回 huí time, occasion (measure word)
- 米 mǐ meter (unit of length)
- 下 xià once [brief action]
- 两 liǎng a tael, about fifty grams
- 道 dào a measure word for long things