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
to carve
Character
Example phrases
- 他会刻字。 Tā huì kè zì. He can carve characters.
- 我想刻名字。 Wǒ xiǎng kè míngzi. I want to carve a name.
- 木头上刻花。 Mùtou shàng kè huā. Flowers are carved on the wood.
Related words
- 刻 kè quarter hour (time measure word)
- 立刻 lìkè immediately
- 深刻 shēnkè deep; profound
- 时刻 shíkè moment; all the time
- 此刻 cǐkè at this moment
- 披 pī to drape over the shoulders
- 染 rǎn to dye; to catch
- 带有 dàiyǒu to have; to contain
- 绕 rào to go around; to wind around
- 羽毛球 yǔmáoqiú badminton; shuttlecock
- 拼 pīn to put together; to spell
- 碎 suì broken into pieces