垮 · kuǎ
be defeated, fail, collapse
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
be defeated, fail, collapse
- Mandarin
- kuǎ
- Cantonese
- kwaa1
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 垮 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Korean 한국어
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
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Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+57AE
- Radical
- 土 · 32
- Strokes
- 9 · Unihan
- Residual
- 6
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
9 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 垮
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- kuǎ
- kCantonese
- kwaa1
- kDefinition
- be defeated, fail, collapse
- kTotalStrokes
- 9
- kRSUnicode
- 32.6
- kTGH
- 2013:1371
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- kuǎ 10438.030
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- kuǎ 0656.020
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- kuǎ 200.080
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- kuǎ(38)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- kuǎ粵kwaa1