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酷

JLPT N1 14 strokes Frequency: #1596

Meanings

Cruel, Severe, Atrocious, Unjust

Radicals

酉

Decomposition

⿰酉告

Etymology

Pictophonetic: wine

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 14

Stroke Order

1 horizontal bottom-to-top

2 vertical bottom-to-top

3 corner bottom-to-top

4 diagonal right-to-left

5 curve bottom-right-to-top-left

6 horizontal bottom-to-top

7 horizontal bottom-to-top

8 diagonal right-to-left

9 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

10 vertical right-to-left

11 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

12 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

13 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

14 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

コク koku

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

ひど hido

Words Using This Kanji

34 words total

Other (14 words)

残忍酷薄ざんにんこくはく

cruel

酷のあるこくのある

full-bodied (e.g. wine, sake)

酷があるこくがある

to be full-bodied (e.g. wine, sake)

酷寒猛暑こっかんもうしょ

bitter cold and fierce heat

残忍冷酷ざんにんれいこく

atrocious and cold-blooded

残酷非道ざんこくひどう

inhumanity

峻酷しゅんこく

severe (personality)

過酷事故かこくじこ

severe accident (esp. relating to a nuclear reactor)

残酷焼ざんこくやき

live broiling of shellfish

酷道こくどう

(national) road in poor condition

terribly

egregious

inhuman

day on which the temperature rises above 35°C

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