| 苛 | |||
| small, petty; harsh, rigorous | |||
| Radical | 䒑艸艹艹艹 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 5 | Total Strokes | 11 |
| Mandarin reading | kē hē hé | Cantonese reading | ho1 |
| Japanese on reading | ka ga | Japanese kun reading | komakai karai iradatsu |
| Korean reading | ka | Vietnamese reading | |
| Specialized Semantic Variant(s) |
哼 | ||
| 苛 | [ kē ] severe, exacting |
| 苛刻 | [ kē kè ] harsh, severe, demanding |
| 苛性 | [ kē xìng ] caustic (chemistry) |
| 苛性鈉 | [ kē xìng nà ] caustic soda, sodium hydroxide NaOH |
| 苛性鉀 | [ kē xìng jiǎ ] caustic potash, potassium hydroxide KOH |
| 苛捐 | [ kē juān ] exorbitant levies |
| 苛捐雜稅 | [ kē juān zá shuì ] exorbitant taxation (idiom) |
| 苛政猛於虎 | [ kē zhèng měng yú hǔ ] tyrannical government is fiercer than a tiger (idiom) |
| 苛求 | [ kē qiú ] demanding |
| 苛責 | [ kē zé ] to criticize harshly, to excoriate |
| ⇒ 嚴苛 | [ yán kē ] severe, harsh |
| ⇒ 蠲苛 | [ juān kē ] to remove an oppressive law, tax etc |
| ⇒ 蠲除苛政 | [ juān chú kē zhèng ] to alleviate oppressive administration (idiom) |