Japanese Kanji
酷koku
cruel · severe · atrocious
Secondary school · JLPT N1 · 14 strokes
Cruel, severe, atrocious, unjust.
酷 is part of the secondary school jōyō kanji — the full set of characters used in everyday Japanese. In the JLPT proficiency test it appears at N1 (advanced) level. With 14 strokes, this character appears in numerous compound words throughout written Japanese.
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