克

剋traditional

HSK 4#710 by frequencyradical 儿

Kè["g","q","b","v"]

gram; to overcome; to restrain; to subdue; to be able to; to overthrow; Tibetan unit of land area, about 6 ares

Kè

Ke (c. 2000 BC), seventh of the legendary Flame Emperors, 炎帝[Yan2 di4] descended from Shennong 神農|神农[Shen2 nong2] Farmer God; variant of 克[ke4]; to subdue; to overthrow; to restrain

Examples

迈克是组长。

Mike is the team's captain.

我说巴斯克语。

I speak Basque.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.