刻

Meaning

刻 centers on cutting or marking with precision: engraving, carving, chopping, or mincing. The time sense comes from the idea of marking time in fine increments, like notches on a sundial.

• 深刻しんこく
  N3

  serious; severe; grave; acute

• 時刻じこく
  N3

  time; (the) hour

• 遅刻ちこく
  N4

  lateness; tardiness; arriving late

• 刻むきざむ
  N3

  to mince; to cut fine; to chop up; to hash; to shred

• 復刻ふっこく

  republication; reissue; reprinting; reproduction

• 彫刻ちょうこく
  N2

  carving; engraving; sculpture

• 刻こく

  period of time (usu. a period of approx. two hours corresponding to one of the signs of the Chinese zodiac)

• 刻印こくいん

  engraving a seal; engraved seal; inscribed seal

• 一刻いっこく

  a moment; a minute; an instant

• 刻みきざみ

  mincing; cutting; chopping; notch; nick

• 即刻そっこく
  N1

  immediately; at once; instantly

• 刻々こっこく

  moment by moment; hour by hour

• 夕刻ゆうこく

  evening; evening hour

• 定刻ていこく

  appointed time; timetable; schedule

• 小刻みこきざみ

  mincing; chopping finely

• 切り刻むきりきざむ

  to hew; to chop up; to mangle; to mince

• 篆刻てんこく

  seal engraving

• 刻子コーツ

  pung; three-of-a-kind

• 先刻せんこく

  a short while ago; just now

• 翻刻ほんこく

  reprinting (of a book)

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