酷こく薄はく

• 残ざん忍にん酷こく薄はく

  cruel; heartless; brutal; atrocious

• 酷こく薄はく無む情じょう

  cold-hearted; merciless; ruthless

• 酷こく薄はくUsage100%

  Standard kanji spelling; 酷 (cruel) + 薄 (thin/meager) suggests harshness.

• 刻こく薄はく

  Variant kanji form using 刻 (carve/cutting); less common but attested.

Compound of 酷 (cruel, severe) and 薄 (thin, meager), suggesting a lack of warmth or compassion. The variant 刻薄 uses 刻 (carve, cutting) with a similar figurative sense. The exact historical derivation is uncertain.