刳 — Chinese character
刳
kū
to cut open, to dig out, to rip up, to scoop out
- Pinyin
- kū
- Radical
- 18 ⼑ (Knife)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 夸 刂
- Formation
- pictophonetic — knife; meaning component 刂; sound component 夸
- Japanese
- 刳 as a kanji
刳 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Zhuangzi 4
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