quarter (hour) / moment / to carve / to engrave / to cut / oppressive / classifier for short time intervals

= + : Mnemonic symbol: an engraver.

The boar cannot believe it when it meets Karl Marx in the elevator's bathroom! Bewildered it asks for an autograph but has nothing except for a kitchen knife and an engraver. It takes Karl Marx a quarter of an hour to engrave his message in the kitchen knife: "Dear boar, keep on fighting capitalism! Yours, Karl."

刻 character breakdown

12th earthly branch: 9-11 p.m., 10th solar month (7th November-6th December), year of the Boar / ancient Chinese compass point: 330°

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: a boar.

= + + : Hamlet is terribly afraid by a beret-wearing boar in the airplane's bathroom, but fortunately Neanderthal man is there to protect him and to fight of the boar with a huge fake nose.
Kangxi radical 18 (刀[dao1]) as a vertical side element / see also 立刀旁[li4 dao1 pang2] / see also 側刀旁|侧刀旁[ce4 dao1 pang2]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a kitchen knife. Don Quixote (d) is showing off his special knifes in front of the aorta (ao1). One is made from a dinosaur bone (丨), and the other is made from a crowbar (亅).

Characters with 刻 as component

刻 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 刻

to brook no delay / to demand immediate action
spiteful / venomous
Slapping the Table in Amazement (Part II), second of two books of vernacular stories by Ming dynasty novelist Ling Mengchu 凌濛初|凌蒙初[Ling2 Meng2 chu1]
photolithography
photolithography machine
photoresist (laser etching used in microelectronics)
time is gold / every minute counts
Slapping the Table in Amazement (Part I), first of two books of vernacular stories by Ming dynasty novelist Ling Mengchu 凌濛初|凌蒙初[Ling2 Meng2 chu1]
to grab money / to exploit
to engrave a seal / stamp mark / to print with carved type / to leave a deep impression
a short time / a little while

Sentences with 刻

hái
ér
men
zài
cǐ
sha̅o
děng
piàn
kè
 
 
ǎn
qù
qù
jiù
lái