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挎

kuà

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 character level 7-9 Character

挎 (kuà) means "to carry (esp. slung over the arm, shoulder or side)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 挎 means

1. to carry (esp. slung over the arm, shoulder or side)

Words starting with 挎

• 挎包kuà bāosatchel; bag
• 挎兜kuà dōusatchel; backpack
• 挎斗kuà dǒusidecar
• 挎兜儿kuà dōu rerhua variant of 挎兜

Characters built on 夸

These share the phonetic component 夸 (kuā), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 跨kuàto step across; to stride over; to straddle
• 垮kuǎto collapse (lit. or fig.)
• 胯kuàcrotch; groin; hip

Characters that look like 挎

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 将jiāngwill; shall; to use
• 垮kuǎto collapse (lit. or fig.)
• 拂fúto flick; to brush off; (of a breeze) to brush lightly over
• 拚pànto strive for; to struggle; to disregard
• 绔kùvariant of 裤
• 捋lǚto smooth or arrange sth using one's fingers; to stroke

Sounds the same

Read kuà, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 跨to step across; to stride over; to straddle
• 胯crotch; groin; hip
• 㐄component in Chinese characters, mirror image of 夂

Where 挎 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · kuà–kū (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read kuà correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.