夸 · kuā
extravagant, luxurious; handsome
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
extravagant, luxurious; handsome
- Mandarin
- kuā
- 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 夸 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.
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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.
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Reading sources explained
- 과
- KS X 1002 (1) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
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+5938
- Radical
- 大 · 37
- Strokes
- 6 · Unihan
- Residual
- 3
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
6 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 夸
Character connections
Component roles · attributed
- 亏 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 亏聲
Line 950 · ⿱大亏 · 亏聲 · source reference 3890050
# 【字通】⿱大亏／會意
Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗
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History & distinctions
Related forms
誇
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- khwae · 苦瓜 反切 · #776
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 6234 · khwae = 假合二平麻溪
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
- kuā
- kCantonese
- kwaa1
- kDefinition
- extravagant, luxurious; handsome
- kTotalStrokes
- 6
- kRSUnicode
- 37.3
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+5938 U+8A87
- kSimplifiedVariant
- U+5938
- kTGH
- 2013:395
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- kuā,kuà,kuǎ 10526.050
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- kuā 0655.070
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- kuā 200.040,200.050
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- kuā(43)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- kuā粵kwaa1