Illustration: Outside a neighborhood ice-cream shop on a summer afternoon, a child holds a cone whose oversized scoop is rapidly losing its shape. One drop bulges beneath the scoop, another falls past the child’s hand, and fresh rivulets join a spreading puddle on the pavement.

JLPT N1adverbLevel estimated by Bebop

刻こっ々こく

kokkoku

moment by moment

Example sentences

天気てんきは刻々こっこくと変かわる。
The weather varies from hour to hour.
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状況じょうきょうは刻々こっこくと悪わるくなった。
The situation became worse by the minute.
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世よの中なかは刻々こっこくと変かわっている。
The world is changing every minute.
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Kanji in 刻々

刻engrave; cut fineOnコクKunきざむ・きざみ

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