Memory phrase for the Kanji: 酷

酷

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Meaning cruel, severe, dreadful

Pronunciation

KOKU

Explanation

Left: wine mug 酉, right: proclaim, announce 告 (The cow 牛 opens the mouth 口 to announce sth.)

Mnemonic
 
After a mug of wine, he proclaimed about the cruelties. (Or: Another mug of wine is announced: How dreadful!)

Radicals

酉 alcoholwine jar
告 announce
牛 cowShows the head キ of a cow with only one horn ノ.
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 Vocabulary

苛酷な かこくな  unrelenting, brutal
酷似 こくじ  resemblance, resemble
冷酷 れいこく  cruelty, coldheartedness, relentless, ruthless
残酷 ざんこく  cruelty, harshness

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