King's Kung-Fu& Tai Chi

剋 — Chinese character

剋
kè
to subdue, to restrain, to overcome; used in transliterations

Pinyin
kè
Radical
18 ⼑ (Knife)
Strokes
9
Components
克 刂
Formation
ideographic — A weapon 刂 used to subdue 十 a beast 兄
Simplified
克
Japanese
剋 as a kanji

Common words with 剋

WordPinyinMeaning
剋架kēi jiàto scuffle; to come to blows
挨剋ái kēito be rebuked; to suffer blows

剋 in the Chinese classics

Occurrences: Zhuangzi 2

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.