HSK 5 · Verbs

夸 kuā “to praise” in Chinese

Traditional 誇

What 夸 means

  1. to praise
  2. to exaggerate
  3. to boast

How to say 夸

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale夸kuā1st tone, high and level

夸 in a sentence

  1. 我就当你夸我了。

    Wǒ jiù dàng nǐ kuā wǒ le.

    I’ll take that as a compliment.

    Sentence #9968862 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我都不知道该怎么夸他们了。

    Wǒ dōu bù zhīdao gāi zěnme kuā tāmen le.

    I can’t praise them highly enough.

    Sentence #9140854 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 不要再夸张了。

    Búyào zài kuāzhāng le.

    Stop exaggerating.

    Sentence #9965302 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 夸 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 夸 (kuā) with each of its parts in a different colour
夸kuāto boast; to exaggerate
  • 大big · dàMeaning part
  • 亏to lose · kuīSound part

大 hints at the meaning (big); 亏 (kuī) hints at the sound. Compare it with kuā.

How to write 夸

夸 6 strokes

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

Words related to 夸

Words with 夸

夸张kuāzhāng · to exaggerate

More words: Thinking & Talking

借口jièkǒu · to use as an excuse据说jùshuō · it is said that决心juéxīn · determination看不起kànbuqǐ · to look down upon骂mà · to scold满足mǎnzú · to satisfy秘密mìmì · secret描写miáoxiě · to describe

FAQs

夸 (kuā) means “to praise” or “to exaggerate”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it kuā: kuā with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 夸 is written 誇. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type kua with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 夸 from the suggestions. Typing kua into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
夸 is an HSK 5 word in the 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.