IDENTITY
刻kèto carve; moment
HSK 4Top 600
CORE MEANING
to carve; moment
- Part of speech
- verb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.to carve; to engraveHSK4
- 2.quarter hour; momentHSK3
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 刂knife radical (dāo)
- strokes
- 8
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰亥刂
- gives the sound kè
- knife
USAGE
Common words
立刻lìkèimmediately
深刻shēnkèprofound
刻苦kèkǔhardworking
Graded examples
他立刻回答了问题。Tā lìkè huídá le wèntí.HSK4
He answered the question immediately.
RELATIONS
LEARNING
Memory aid
A knife (刂) marking the hour (亥) — carving; a notch of time.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #600
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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