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刻

July 26, 2019 by Jing Chai 10 Comments

汉字 部首 部首意思 汉字意思
刻 刂 knife to carve, a quarter

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  1. Munkh-Erdene Altanbaatar says

    October 9, 2022 at 3:15 pm

    The knife radical in it makes me think an hour has been cut into 4 pieces.

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  2. Emiliano Cossu says

    October 5, 2022 at 3:24 pm

    I remember this character by looking at the left part of the character; which looks like a piece of carved wood. While the right part looks in many aspects like a sharp knife.

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  3. Louise Simpson says

    February 22, 2022 at 2:01 am

    To me it looks like a person going skiing (the left part is the person wearing skis, the right is the skiing poles. I don’t know any skiing lingo but I feel like they would say they are ‘carving’ the snow?

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  4. Miriyam Kuanysh says

    October 11, 2021 at 1:50 pm

    The character on the right looks like a knife. The second part of the character looks like it has been cut into a quarter.

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  5. Emily Yan says

    September 28, 2021 at 3:16 am

    i remember part of hai of haizi and with a straight line down and a check

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  6. Mahrukh Riaz says

    September 16, 2021 at 9:30 pm

    the knife radical would mean the time is divided into parts

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  7. Abby Clark says

    October 25, 2019 at 1:37 pm

    It has the knife radical because it splits the clock into sections.

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  8. Anu Bat-yeruult says

    October 6, 2019 at 11:01 pm

    The middle part of the left part looks like a number 4 and the right part means a knife, which looks like slicing a thing into four slices using a knife.

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  9. Clara Parker Luce says

    July 31, 2019 at 10:10 pm

    it is a knife cutting half of the character in halt – thus a quarter

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  10. Rosalie Dang says

    July 29, 2019 at 1:28 am

    On the left it looks like there is a “4” which helps me to remember this means a quarter (1/4)

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