kǎo

torture and interrogate

To question  by hand  also provides the pronunciation

Components
扌 meaning component

  Meaning component

shoushǒu

  

hand

考 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

kǎo

  

examine

Definitions

 

kǎo

torture and interrogate; hit; to beat; to flog; to examine under torture

Most common words with 拷
Freq.
Word
Meaning

拷贝

copy

to beat

拷问

to question via torture

拷打

to torture