Character: 刻
Modern (Beijing) reading: kè
Preclassic Old Chinese: khǝ̄k
Classic Old Chinese: khǝ̄k
Western Han Chinese: khǝ̄k
Eastern Han Chinese: khǝ̄k
Early Postclassic Chinese: khǝ̄k
Middle Postclassic Chinese: khǝ̄k
Late Postclassic Chinese: khǝ̄k
Middle Chinese: khʌk
English meaning : to engrave, cut, injure
Russian meaning[s]: 1) четверть часа; момент; время; сейчас же, немедленно; ныне, теперь; 2) глубокий; глубоко запечатлеть; 3) скупой; жестокий, бесчеловечный; [kē] 1) вырезывать, гравировать; 2) обирать, обдирать; 3) третировать
Comments: Also used to denote a short time period (quarter of an hour), originally "a cut, notch". In Viet. there is also a colloquial loan: khấc 'notch, nick'.
Radical: 18
Four-angle index: 2910
Karlgren code: 0937 v
Vietnamese reading: khắc
