跨 · kuà
straddle, bestride, ride; carry
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
straddle, bestride, ride; carry
- Mandarin
- kuà
- Cantonese
- kwaa3
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 跨 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
Go deeperJisho ↗Wiktionary ↗
Korean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
Go deeperNaver Hanja ↗Wiktionary ↗
Reading sources explained
- 과
- KS X 1001 (0) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+8DE8
- Radical
- 足 · 157
- Strokes
- 13 · Unihan
- Residual
- 6
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
13 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 跨
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Component roles · attributed
- 夸 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 夸聲
Line 968 · ⿰𧾷夸 · 夸聲 · source reference 0400280
Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- khwae · 苦瓜 反切 · #776
- Middle Chinese
- khwaeX · 苦瓦 反切 · #1794
- Middle Chinese
- khuH · 苦故 反切 · #2357
- Middle Chinese
- khwaeH · 苦化 反切 · #2881
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 6236 · khwae = 假合二平麻溪 · khwaeX = 假合二上麻溪 · khuH = 遇開一去模溪 · khwaeH = 假合二去麻溪
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- kuà
- kCantonese
- kwaa3
- kDefinition
- straddle, bestride, ride; carry
- kTotalStrokes
- 13
- kRSUnicode
- 157.6
- kGradeLevel
- 6
- kTGH
- 2013:2913
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- kuà,kù,kuā,kuǎ 63700.090
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- kuà 0656.050
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- kuà 200.110
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- kuà(62)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- kuà粵kwaa1,kwaa3
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 苦瓜 苦瓦 苦故 苦化
- Kangxi positions
- 1225.010
- Guangyun positions
- 166.19 309.53 370.06 424.01
- GSR references
- 0043d
- Cangjie
- RMKMS
- Four-corner
- 6412.7