• 即刻そっこく — immediately; at once
• 遅刻ちこく — being late; tardiness
• 時刻じこく — time; schedule
• 深刻しんこく — serious; grave
• 彫刻ちょうこく — sculpture; engraving
• 刻きざむ — to carve; to engrave

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刻 combines the knife radical 刂 with 亥 (phonetic). It began as “making small cuts,” which broadened to “carve/engrave,” and by extension “mark time.”

大切たいせつな 言葉ことばを 心こころに 刻きざみました。
I engraved those important words into my heart.

つぎの電車でんしゃの時刻じこくを 調しらべましょう。
Let’s check the time of the next train.