刻

kè

quarter (hour)

moment; to carve; to engrave; to cut; oppressive; classifier for short time intervals

knife (刂) + 亥 (phonetic) = carve and cut

The knife radical (刂) carries the meaning: carving, cutting, marking. 亥 contributes the sound kè and does not add meaning here.

亥+刂→刻
亥The last earthly branchPhonetic
刂KnifeSemantic

现在是三点一刻,我们快走吧。

xiàn zài shì sān diǎn yī kè, wǒ men kuài zǒu ba。

It is now a quarter past three, let's hurry and go.

他花了很长时间在木头上刻出一朵花。

tā huā le hěn cháng shí jiān zài mù tou shàng kè chū yī duǒ huā。

He spent a long time carving a flower into the wood.

Words with 刻

时刻表

shí kè biǎo

timetable

每时每刻

měi shí měi kè

at all times

刻骨

kè gǔ

ingrained

刻板

kè bǎn

stiff

铭刻

míng kè

a carved inscription

铭心刻骨

míng xīn kè gǔ

lit. etched into one's heart and bones (idiom)

镂刻

lòu kè

to carve

镌刻

juān kè

to engrave

雕刻

diāo kè

to carve

雕刻品

diāo kè pǐn

sculpture

雕虫篆刻

diāo chóng zhuàn kè

literary trifles

雕刻家

diāo kè jiā

sculptor

More characters with 亥

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