酷

酷 — cruel, severe, atrocious

JLPT: JLPT N1
Strokes: 14
Taught in: Secondary school
Frequency: #1596 most common

Readings

On'yomi came with the character from Chinese; kun'yomi is the native Japanese word it was borrowed for. A dot marks where okurigana takes over, a hyphen marks a prefix or suffix position.

On'yomi: こく koku
Kun'yomi: ひど.い hido.i

Example words for this kanji are being written.

Words that use 酷

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