Kanji1 / 8
刻 kanji
engrave, cut fine, chop, hash, mince, time, carving
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
コク
Kun readings
きざむきざみ
Words with 刻
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —刻苦hard work
- —刻限time; appointed time
- —刻字carving characters; carved characters
- —刻本wood-block book
- —頃刻short period
- —重刻reprinting
- —瞬刻moment; instant
- —食刻etching
- —先刻a short while ago; just now; already; for a long time
- —例刻the regular time
- —翻刻reprinting (of a book)
- —篆刻seal engraving
- —後刻later on; afterwards
- —寸刻moment
- —鏤刻engraving; carving (into); polishing (a piece of writing); improving
- —漏刻water clock; clepsydra
- —陰刻hollow relief (carving); gloomy and cold
- —上刻first third of a two-hour period
- —石刻stone carving or engraving
- —下刻final third of a two-hour period