拷 — Chinese character
拷
kǎo
to torture, to interrogate; to beat, to flog
- Pinyin
- kǎo
- Radical
- 64 ⼿ (Hand)
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- 扌 考
- Formation
- ideographic — To question 考 by hand 扌; 考 also provides the pronunciation
- Japanese
- 拷 as a kanji
Common words with 拷
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 拷问 (拷問) | kǎo wèn | to question via torture |
| 拷贝 (拷貝) | kǎo bèi | copy; to copy (loanword) |
| 拷打 | kǎo dǎ | to beat a prisoner (to obtain confessions); to give sb the third degree |
| 严刑拷打 (嚴刑拷打) | yán xíng kǎo dǎ | torture; interrogation by torture |
| 拷掠 | kǎo lüè | to torture |
| 拷花 | kǎo huā | to emboss |
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.