刻
kè HSK2

carve

刻 kè
moment noun
a brief interval of time; a point in time

她在最后一刻犹豫了。

tā zài zuì​hòu yī kè yóu​yù le.

She hesitated at the last moment.

从那一刻起，我下定决心要成为一位战机飞行员。

cóng nà yī kè qǐ, wǒ xià dìng jué​xīn yào chéng​wéi yī wèi zhàn​jī fēi​xíng​yuán.

From that moment on, I was determined to become a fighter pilot.

to carve verb
to carve; to engrave; to cut into a surface

那十字架是从墨西哥的一棵树上刻下来的。

nà shí​zì​jià shì cóng mò​xī​gē de yī kē shù shang kè xia lái de.

That cross was carved from a tree in Mexico.

cruel adjective
(bound form) mean; stingy; harsh; oppressive
quarter of an hour verbnoun
a unit of time equal to 15 minutes

三刻钟到一小时后，症状消失了，我能描述所发生的事情。

sān kè zhōng dào yī xiǎo​shí hòu, zhèng​zhuàng xiāo​shī le, wǒ néng miáo​shù suǒ fā​shēng de shì​qing.

After 3/4 to 1 hour the symptoms disappeared, and I was able to describe what had happened.

to set a time
to fix a date; to set a deadline
edition
(bound form) a carved work; an edition of a book

Cross-References

See

Frequency
Character
Written text
618th most common 336.0 per million
Movie subtitles
649th most common 210.2 per million appears in 65% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
17.9 per million appears in 8% of films
Written text
29.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+523B

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)