(kè) - gram, to overcome, to restrain in Mandarin
kèTraditional: 克
Translation
gram, to overcome, to restrain
Word origin
An ancient character originally meaning to be able or to subdue. In modern use it also serves as a phonetic loan for the metric gram. The older sense survives in words such as 克服 (to overcome).
- Origin
- pictographic
- Root
- 克 (kè), originally meaning to subdue or be capable
Stroke order
克
Examples
糖百。
This bag of sugar weighs five hundred grams.
百牛。
Please give me two hundred grams of beef.
。
He finally overcame the difficulty.
千斤。
One thousand grams equals one kilogram.
。
We must learn to restrain ourselves.
克 (kè) means gram as a unit of weight, and as a verb to overcome or restrain. It is used both in measurements and for mastering difficulty.
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Appears in 9 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 克.
Used in
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