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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
- —中刻middle third of a two-hour period
- —打刻inscribing; engraving; incising; recording the time (on a time card); punching; clocking in (out)
- —合刻publication of two or more different books together as one
- —峭刻very rigorous; strict; cruel
- —陽刻relief (carving)
- —数刻several hours; a few hours
- —木刻(Chinese) woodblock carving; woodcut
- —刻銘inscription on stone monuments, metal receptacles, etc.; exergue; inscribing
- —刻舟not getting with the times; being unaware of how things are changing
- —下刻downcutting; downward erosion; vertical erosion
- —側刻lateral erosion
- —自刻self-portrait (sculpture, carving, engraving, etc.); carved by oneself; sculpted by oneself
- —模刻(carved) replica; reproduction
- —刻器burin
- —同刻same time; same moment
- —一刻者stubborn person; obstinate person
- —印刻師seal engraver
- —夏時刻daylight saving time; daylight savings time; summer time
- —彫刻家engraver; carver; sculptor
- —彫刻界sculpture circles