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Chinese symbol for “venomous”

刻毒
kè dú
spiteful; venomous

The closest CC-CEDICT match for venomous is 刻毒 (kè dú), defined as: spiteful; venomous.

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Characters and stroke order

刻 kè
to carve, to engrave; a quarter hour; a moment
radical 18 ⼑ · 8 strokes
毒 dú
poison, venom; drug, narcotic
radical 80 ⽏ · 9 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 刻毒.

WordPinyinMeaning
时刻 (時刻)shí kètime; juncture
立刻lì kèimmediately; at once; right away
深刻shēn kèprofound; deep
此刻cǐ kèthis moment; now
一刻yī kèa quarter of an hour; 15 minutes; a moment; an instant
刻意kè yìintentionally; deliberately; purposely; painstakingly; meticulously
病毒bìng dúvirus
毒品dú pǐndrugs; narcotics

See also: Japanese symbol for “venomous”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.