克 (hak1 haak1 | ke4) : vanquish; restrain; can; gram

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克

hak1 haak1

ke4

[1] vanquish; conquer; subdue
[2] restrain; control; suppress
[3] can; be able to
[4] gram; gramme
[5] digest

While being a traditional character on its own, 克 is also the simplified version of another traditional character 剋.
Jyutping hak1 is the literary reading; haak1, the colloquial. These two are usually interchangeable, but the former is more commonly used.

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Stroke count: 7

Level: 3

Radical: 儿 (#10)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

克

This word has been viewed 15381 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 29th Oct 2009 13:44

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克隆 hak1 lung4 ke4 long2 = clone (loan word)

巧克力 haau2 hak1 lik6 qiao3 ke4 li4 = chocolate (Mandarin transliteration) 國

馬克 maa5 hak1 ma3 ke4 = mark (loanword)

薩克斯管 saat3 hak1 si1 gun2 sa4 ke4 si1 guan3 = saxophone 國

馬克思 maa5 hak1 si1 ma3 ke4 si1 = Marx; Karl Marx

馬克思主義 maa5 hak1 si1 zyu2 ji6 ma3 ke4 si1 zhu3 yi4 = Marxism

伊拉克 ji1 laai1 hak1 yi1 la1 ke4 = Iraq

千克 cin1 hak1 qian1 ke4 = kilogram

捷克共和國 zit6 hak1 gung6 wo4 gwok3 jie2 ke4 gong4 he2 guo2 = Czech Republic

魁北克 fui1 bak1 hak1 kui2 bei3 ke4 = Quebec
See all 134 compounds (CantoDict reports 136 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

Showing all 4 examples containing 克

有時淨係叫坦克粵
Sometimes it's shortened to "tank".
[Lit. Have-times only call "tank". [坦克 is short for 坦克車.]]

他用哈姆立克急救法救了我一命。國
He saved my life using the Heimlich Maneuver.

坦克車係一架有履帶嘅戰鬥車粵
A tank is a war machine with caterpillar tracks.

波拉特係個哈薩克斯坦人；佢唔係美國人呀粵
Borat is from Kazakhstan; he is not an American.

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國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese.
粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

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Decimal representation of this word: 克
Unicode code for this character: U+514b (off-site link)

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