Chinese Character Wiki

苛

kē

small

Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 可 represents the sound.

Components
艹 meaning component

艹  Meaning component

cao, cǎo

  

grass

艹 is a component form of 艸.

可 sound component

可  Sound component

kě, kè

  

able to

Evolution

苛 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
苛 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
苛 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
苛 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

苛  

kē

small, petty; harsh, rigorous; severe; exacting

Most common words with 苛
Freq.
Word
Meaning

苛刻

harsh

苛

severe

苛求

demanding

苛责

to excoriate

严苛

severe

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.8283% of movies

2728th most common character in movies

3095th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+82DB

Shuowen

“苛，小艸也。从艸，可聲。”


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