| 1 | 刻 | 刻 | kè | ke4 | quarter (hour); moment; to carve; to engrave; to cut; oppressive; classifier for short time intervals | | |
| 2 | 刻苦 | 刻苦 | kè kǔ | ke4 ku3 | hardworking; assiduous | | |
| 3 | 刻度 | 刻度 | kè dù | ke4 du4 | marked scale; graduated scale | | |
| 4 | 刻画 | 刻畫 | kè huà | ke4 hua4 | to portray | | |
| 5 | 刻苦耐劳 | 刻苦耐勞 | kè kǔ nài láo | ke4 ku3 nai4 lao2 | to bear hardships and work hard (idiom); assiduous and long-suffering; hard-working and capable of overcoming adversity | | |
| 6 | 刻舟求剑 | 刻舟求劍 | kè zhōu qiú jiàn | ke4 zhou1 qiu2 jian4 | lit. a notch on the side of a boat to locate a sword dropped overboard (idiom); fig. an action made pointless by changed circumstances | | |
| 7 | 刻苦努力 | 刻苦努力 | kè kǔ nǔ lì | ke4 ku3 nu3 li4 | assiduous; taking great pains | | |
| 8 | 刻苦学习 | 刻苦學習 | kè kǔ xué xí | ke4 ku3 xue2 xi2 | to study hard; assiduous | | |
| 9 | 刻苦钻研 | 刻苦鑽研 | kè kǔ zuān yán | ke4 ku3 zuan1 yan2 | to study diligently | | |
| 10 | 刻录 | 刻錄 | kè lù | ke4 lu4 | to record on a CD or DVD; to burn a disc | | |
| 11 | 刻录机 | 刻錄機 | kè lù jī | ke4 lu4 ji1 | disk burner | | |
| 12 | 刻期 | 刻期 | kè qī | ke4 qi1 | variant of 克期 | | |
| 13 | 刻奇 | 刻奇 | kè qí | ke4 qi2 | (loanword) kitsch, in a sense that originates in the writing of Milan Kundera: getting emotional about sth due to the influence of social conditioning | | |
| 14 | 刻日 | 刻日 | kè rì | ke4 ri4 | variant of 克日 | | |
| 15 | 刻丝 | 刻絲 | kè sī | ke4 si1 | variant of 缂丝 | | |
| 16 | 刻写 | 刻寫 | kè xiě | ke4 xie3 | to inscribe | | |
| 17 | 刻意 | 刻意 | kè yì | ke4 yi4 | meticulous; painstaking; deliberate | | |
| 18 | 刻意求工 | 刻意求工 | kè yì qiú gōng | ke4 yi4 qiu2 gong1 | assiduous and painstaking | | |
| 19 | 刻意为之 | 刻意為之 | kè yì wéi zhī | ke4 yi4 wei2 zhi1 | to make a conscious effort; to do something deliberately | | |
| 20 | 刻印 | 刻印 | kè yìn | ke4 yin4 | to engrave a seal; stamp mark; to print with carved type; to leave a deep impression | | |
| 21 | 刻度盘 | 刻度盤 | kè dù pán | ke4 du4 pan2 | dial (e.g. of a radio etc) | | |
| 22 | 刻版 | 刻版 | kè bǎn | ke4 ban3 | stiff; inflexible; mechanical; stubborn; to cut blocks for printing; engraved blocks (for printing) | | |
| 23 | 刻板印象 | 刻板印象 | kè bǎn yìn xiàng | ke4 ban3 yin4 xiang4 | stereotype | | |
| 24 | 刻本 | 刻本 | kè běn | ke4 ben3 | block printed edition | | |
| 25 | 刻剥 | 刻剝 | kè bō | ke4 bo1 | to grab money; to exploit | | |