Illustration: At a low breakfast table in a Japanese home, a toddler's elbow has just knocked a cup over the edge. Before it can fall, the parent beside the child has already thrust an open hand underneath it.

JLPT N1adverbLevel estimated by Bebop

即そっ刻こく

sokkoku

immediately, at once

Example sentences

  1. かんかんに怒おこった社員しゃいんは、即刻そっこく会社かいしゃを辞やめた。

    The outraged employee resigned at once.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 毎年祭まいとしまつりの前まえに建造けんぞうされ、祭まつりが終了しゅうりょうすると即刻そっこく解体かいたいされるものが多おおい。

    Many yamakasa are built before a festival each year, and dismantled soon after it ends.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. また、秀吉ひでよしは津田盛月つだもりつき・富田一白とみたいっぱくを上使じょうしとして北条氏ほうじょうしに派遣はけんし、名胡桃事件なぐるみじけんの首謀者しゅぼうしゃを処罰しょばつして即刻そっこく上洛じょうらくするよう要求ようきゅうしている。

    Also, Hideyoshi sent Moritsuki TSUDA and Ippaku TOMITA to the Hojo clan as an envoy of the shogun, and demanded that the clan punish the ringleader of the Nagurumi Incident and immediately visit the capital.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 即刻

  • 即instant; namelyOnソクKunつく・つける・すなわち
  • 刻engrave; cut fineOnコクKunきざむ・きざみ

A word like this on every new tab

The Bebop Chrome extension shows one illustrated Japanese word each time you open a new tab in Chrome, with its reading, meaning, kanji and three example sentences. Choose any mix of levels from N5 to beyond N1. It’s free, with no account.

The Bebop new tab showing 音楽, music, over an illustration of a family playing music at home, with three example sentences
Add to Chrome Free on the Chrome Web Store
For Chrome on a computer. See it on the Chrome Web Store