kuā

extravagant

Extravagant  words also provides the pronunciation

Components
言 meaning component

  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

夸 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

kuā

  

see 夸克[kuā​kè]

Evolution

誇 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
誇 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

kuā

exaggerate; brag, boast; flaunt; to boast; to exaggerate; to praise

Most common words with 誇
Freq.
Word
Meaning

夸张

to exaggerate

to boast

夸奖

to praise

夸大

to exaggerate

浮夸

to exaggerate

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[kʷʰ]ˤra

khwae

kuā

boast


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 16.6106% of movies

1742nd most common character in movies

1955th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

Unicode

U+8A87

Shuowen

“誇,譀也。从言,夸聲。”


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