kè
carve
Phonosemantic compound. 刂 represents the meaning and 亥 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
kè
carve, engrave; quarter hour; quarter (hour); moment; to carve; to engrave; to cut; oppressive; classifier for short time intervals
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[kʰ]ˤək | khok | kè | cut, engrave |
Statistics
HSK level 2
Appears in 64.6804% of movies
649th most common character in movies
618th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+523B |
Shuowen | “刻，鏤也。从刀，亥聲。” |
Sources
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