HSK 3.0 Level 3 · Everyday Verbs

刮 guā “to blow (of wind)” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 刮 means

  1. to blow (of wind)
  2. to scrape
  3. to shave
  4. to blow
  5. to plunder
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • to extort

How to say 刮

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale刮guā1st tone, high and level

刮 in a sentence

  1. 外边风刮得很大。

    Wàibian fēng guā de hěn dà.

    The wind is blowing hard outside.

    Sentence #1216057 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 你每天早上都刮胡子吗？

    Nǐ měitiān zǎoshang dōu guā húzi ma?

    Do you shave every morning?

    Sentence #12047747 from Tatoeba

  3. 他刮下靴子上的泥巴。

    Tā guā xià xuēzi shàng de níba.

    He scraped the mud off his boots.

    Sentence #876730 from Tatoeba

How 刮 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 刮 (guā) with each of its parts in a different colour
刮guāto scrape
  • 舌tongue · shéSound part
  • 刂knife form of 刀 · dāoMeaning part

刂 hints at the meaning (knife); 舌 (shé) hints at the sound. Compare it with guā.

How to write 刮

刮 8 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

刮 (guā) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 刮 (guā). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 刮

Words with 刮

刮风guāfēng · windy

More words: Everyday Verbs

不见bújiàn · to be missing刷shuā · to brush分开fēnkāi · to separate遇见yùjiàn · to meet (by chance)扫sǎo · to sweep搬家bānjiā · to move house关机guānjī · to turn off (a device)开机kāijī · to switch on (a device)

FAQs

刮 (guā) means “to blow (of wind)” or “to scrape”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it guā: guā with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 刮 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type gua with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 刮 from the suggestions. Typing gua into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
刮 is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 5 word list. It is not on the older HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.