刮
颳guā
#2,345 most
frequent character
scratch, shave, fleece, extort
verb
Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
刮 guā has 刂 knife for meaning and a sound part written 舌, but it is not the 舌 shé 'tongue' word. A knife scraping fits the first sense: to rub or scrape. 'To shave' grew from that; 'to blow,' of wind, was borrowed for sound.
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Example Sentences
我每天早上刮胡子。
wǒ měitiān zǎoshàng guā húzǐ 。
I shave my beard every morning.
风刮得很大。
fēng guādé hěndà 。
The wind is blowing very hard.
他用刀刮掉了墙上的漆。
tāyòng dāo guādiào le qiáng shàng de qī 。
He scraped off the paint from the wall with a knife.
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