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酷 — cruel, severe, atrocious

N1 14 strokes #1596 most common

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Readings

音 コク
訓 ひどい
Meaning cruel, severe, atrocious, unjust
नेपाली निर्दयी · कठोर

How to remember it

酉とりへん र 告こく — निर्दयी/कठोर; 冷酷れいこく = निर्दयी (⇔慈悲深い)।

Parts it is built from

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Words using 酷

  • 冷酷れいこく cruel निर्दयी course
  • 酷評こくひょう harsh criticism कडा आलोचना course
  • 過酷かこく severe अति कठोर course
  • 残酷ざんこく brutal क्रूर course
  • 酷使こくし overworking अति प्रयोग/शोषण course
  • 酷暑こくしょ intense heat चर्को गर्मी course
  • 酷似こくじ resembling closely, being strikingly similar, bearing a strong likeness dictionary
  • 酷ひどい cruel, heartless, hard dictionary
  • 酷ひどく terribly, awfully, dreadfully dictionary
  • 酷こく severe, harsh, stringent dictionary

Example sentences

People are let down by his cruel attitude.
निर्दयी व्यवहारले मानिस निराश हुन्छन्।
I work in a harsh environment.
अति कठोर वातावरणमा काम गर्छु।