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kuà

to carry

🔤 Pictophonetic: 扌 (hand) provides meaning, 夸 provides pronunciation

HSK 6 9 strokes Uncommon (40%)

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Component Breakdown

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extravagant, luxurious; handsome

⿰扌夸 i

Stroke Order

Component Tree i

shǒu

扌

hand

📷 Pictographic: A hand with the fingers splayed; compare 手

3 strokes

èr

二

two; twice

💡 Ideographic: Two parallel lines; compare 一 (one) and 三 (three)

2 strokes HSK 1

jué

亅

hook

1 strokes

kuā

夸

extravagant, luxurious; handsome

🔤 Pictophonetic: 大 (great) provides meaning, 亏 provides pronunciation

6 strokes HSK 5

dà

大

big, great, vast, high, deep

💡 Ideographic: A man 人 with outstretched arms

3 strokes HSK 1

kuī

亏

to lose, to fail; loss, damages; deficient

3 strokes HSK 5

èr

二

two; twice

💡 Ideographic: Two parallel lines; compare 一 (one) and 三 (three)

2 strokes HSK 1

unknown

Unknown component - strokes not mapped to a known radical

1 strokes

Words Using 挎 (5)

Character

Pinyin

Definition

HSK

挎 ↗

kuà

to carry (esp. slung over the arm, shoulder or side)

kuà

挎 ↗

HSK 6

to carry (esp. slung over the arm, shoulder or side)

erhua variant of [[挎兜<kuàdōu>]]

kuàdōur

挎兜儿 ↗

erhua variant of [[挎兜<kuàdōu>]]