酷 is the Japanese kanji for cruel, severe, atrocious, unjust. It is written with 14 strokes and appears at JLPT level N1. Its kun reading is ひど.い and its on reading is コク.
Stroke order
Words with 酷
- 酷severe, harsh, stringent
- 酷いcruel, heartless, hard
- 酷くterribly, awfully, dreadfully
- 残酷cruel, brutal, ruthless
- 過酷severe, harsh, hard
- 酷似resembling closely, being strikingly similar, bearing a strong likeness
Practice 酷 with brush strokes, spaced repetition and quizzes in the app.