guā
to scrape, shave
Phonosemantic compound. 刂 represents the meaning and 𠯑 represents the sound.
Seal script
Regular script
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to scrape | ||
to have a whole new level of respect for sb or sth | ||
to plunder | ||
to be windy | ||
gua sha (technique in TCM) |
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[kʷˤ]r[a]t | kwaet | guā | scrape (v.) |
HSK level 6
Appears in 10.0112% of movies
1989th most common character in movies
2350th most common character in books
Strokes | 8 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+522E |
Shuowen | “刮,掊把也。从刀,聲。” |