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剋

kè, kēi

to beat

Phonosemantic compound. 克 represents the sound and 刂 represents the meaning.

Components
克 sound component

克  Sound component

kè, kēi

  

subdue

刂 meaning component

刂  Meaning component

dāo

  

knife

Definitions

克 (剋) 

kè

subdue, overcome; cut down; variant of 克[kè]; to subdue; to overthrow; to restrain

克 (剋) 

Kè

Ke (c. 2000 BC), seventh of the legendary Flame Emperors, 炎帝[Yán​dì] descended from Shennong 神農|神农[Shén​nóng] Farmer God

克 (剋) 

kēi

to scold; to beat

Most common words with 剋
Freq.
Word
Meaning

克

to subdue

伊拉克

Iraq

杰克

Jack (name)

巧克力

chocolate (loanword)

克服

to conquer

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 67.8039% of movies

157th most common character in movies

262nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Simplified

克

Unicode

U+524B


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