| 刻 | kè | quarter (hour); moment; to carve; to engrave; to cut; oppressive; classifier for short time intervals |
| 刻度 | kè dù | marked scale; graduated scale |
| 刻苦 | kè kǔ | hardworking; assiduous |
| 刻画 | kè huà | to portray |
| 刻本 | kè běn | block printed edition |
| 刻骨 | kè gǔ | ingrained; entrenched; deep-rooted; inveterate; virulent |
| 刻不容缓 | kè bù róng huǎn | to brook no delay; to demand immediate action |
| 刻板 | kè bǎn | stiff; inflexible; mechanical; stubborn; to cut blocks for printing |
| 刻意 | kè yì | meticulous; painstaking; scrupulous (effort) |
| 刻薄 | kè bó | unkind; harsh; cutting; mean; acrimony; to embezzle by making illegal deductions |
| 刻印 | kè yìn | to engrave a seal; stamp mark; to print with carved type; to leave a deep impression |
| 刻写 | kè xiě | inscribe |
| 刻度盘 | kè dù pán | dial (e.g. of a radio etc) |
| 刻意求工 | kè yì qiú gōng | assiduous and painstaking |
| 刻板印象 | kè bǎn yìn xiàng | stereotype |
| 刻毒 | kè dú | spiteful; venomous |
| 刻版 | kè bǎn | engraved blocks (for printing) |
| 刻痕 | kè hén | notch |
| 刻舟求剑 | kè zhōu qiú jiàn | lit. a notch on the side of a boat to locate a sword dropped overboard (idiom); fig. an action made pointless by changed circumstances |
| 刻苦努力 | kè kǔ nǔ lì | assiduous; taking great pains |
| 刻苦学习 | kè kǔ xué xí | to study hard; assiduous |
| 刻苦耐劳 | kè kǔ nài láo | to bear hardships and work hard (idiom); assiduous and long-suffering; hard-working and capable of overcoming adversity |
| 刻苦钻研 | kè kǔ zuān yán | to study diligently |
| 刻录 | kè lù | to record on a CD or DVD; to burn a disc |
| 刻录机 | kè lù jī | disk burner |
| 刻骨相思 | kè gǔ xiāng sī | lit. one’s feelings carved into one’s bones; to care for sb very deeply (idiom) |
| 刻骨铭心 | kè gǔ míng xīn | deep-felt gratitude (idiom) |
