Hanja Analyzer
夸

夸 — gwa

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
사치할/자랑할 과
Romanization
gwa
English
extravagant, luxurious; handsome
Mandarin
kuā
Japanese on'yomi
カ, コ, ケ, ク
Japanese kun'yomi
ほご.る
Japanese usage
Not on either list
Strokes
6
Radical
大 (37, 3 residual)
Phonetic component
亏
Unicode
U+5938

How 夸 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 夸 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 大, 于.

Characters sharing the phonetic 亏

Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike.

Other hanja read “과”

Other hanja with radical 大

Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences