See also:
U+8A87, 誇
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8A87

[U+8A86]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+8A88]

Translingual

Han character

(radical 149, +6, 13 strokes, cangjie input 卜口大一尸 (YRKMS), four-corner 04627, composition)

  1. exaggerate
  2. brag, boast
  3. flaunt

References

  • KangXi: page 1161, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35474
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1625, character 28
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3962, character 14
  • Unihan data for U+8A87

Chinese

trad.
simp. *

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*qaːls
*kʰʷraː
*kʰʷraː
*kʰʷraː, *kʰʷraːs, *kʰʷaːs
*kʰʷraː, *kʰʷraːʔ, *kʰʷraːs, *kʰʷaːs
*kʰʷraː
*kʰʷraːʔ
*kʰʷraːʔ
*kʰʷraːʔ
*kʰʷraːʔ
*ɢʷraː, *qʷaː
*ɡʷraːs
*pɢʷaː, *kʰʷaː
*qʰʷl'
*kʰʷaː, *qʷaː
*kʰʷaː
*kʰʷaː
*kʰʷaː
*kʰʷaːs
*kʰʷaːs
*kʰʷaːs
*qʰaː
洿 *ɡʷaːʔ, *qʷaː
*ɡʷlaː, *ɡʷlaːs
*ɢʷlaːʔ
*qʷaː, *qʷaːs
*qʷaː
*qʷaː
*qʷaː
*qʷaː
*qʷaːs, *ɢʷa
*qʰʷl'a
*qʰʷl'a
*pqʰʷa, *qʰʷa
*qʰʷla, *ɢʷla
*qʰʷa, *ɢʷas
*qʰʷa
*qʰʷa
*qʰʷa, *qʷa
*qʰʷa
*qʰʷaʔ
*qʷa
*qʷa
*qʷa, *qʷaʔ, *ɢʷa
*qʷa
*ɢʷa
*ɢʷa
*ɢʷa
*ɢʷa
*ɢʷa
*ɢʷa, *ɢʷas
*ɢʷa
*ɢʷa
*ɢʷa
*ɢʷla
*ɢʷaʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kʰʷraː) : semantic  (words, language) + phonetic  (OC *kʰʷraː) – to speak boastfully.

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /kʰua⁵⁵/
Harbin /kʰua⁴⁴/
Tianjin /kʰuɑ²¹/
Jinan /kʰua²¹³/
Qingdao /kʰua²¹³/
Zhengzhou /kʰua²⁴/
Xi'an /kʰua²¹/
Xining /kʰua⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /kʰua⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /kʰua³¹/
Ürümqi /kʰua⁴⁴/
Wuhan /kʰua³⁵/
Chengdu /kʰua⁵⁵/
Guiyang /kʰua⁵⁵/
Kunming /kʰua̠⁴⁴/
Nanjing /kʰuɑ³¹/
Hefei /kʰua²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /kʰua¹¹/
Pingyao /kʰuɑ¹³/
Hohhot /kʰua³¹/
Wu Shanghai /kʰo⁵³/
/kʰua⁵³/
Suzhou /kʰo⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /kʰuɑ³³/
Wenzhou /kʰo³³/
Hui Shexian /kʰua³¹/
Tunxi /kʰuːə¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /kʰua³³/
Xiangtan /kʰuɒ³³/
Gan Nanchang /kuɑ⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /kʰua⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /kʰuɑ²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /kʰwa⁵³/
Nanning /kʰʷa⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /kʰwa⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /kʰua⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /kʰua⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /kʰua⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /kʰua³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /xua²³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (29)
Final () (99)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () II
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kʰˠua/
Pan
Wuyun
/kʰʷᵚa/
Shao
Rongfen
/kʰua/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kʰwaɨ/
Li
Rong
/kʰua/
Wang
Li
/kʰwa/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kʰwa/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
kuā
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
kuā
Middle
Chinese
‹ khwae ›
Old
Chinese
/*[kʷʰ]ˁra/
English boast

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 15652
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kʰʷraː/

Definitions

  1. to boast; to exaggerate; to praise

Compounds

  • 你誇我逞你夸我逞
  • 好自矜誇好自矜夸
  • 浮誇浮夸 (fúkuā)
  • 矜誇矜夸
  • 自誇自夸 (zìkuā)
  • 自賣自誇自卖自夸
  • 誇下海口夸下海口
  • 誇勝道強夸胜道强
  • 誇口夸口 (kuākǒu)
  • 誇多鬥靡夸多斗靡
  • 誇大夸大 (kuādà)
  • 誇大不實夸大不实
  • 誇大其辭夸大其辞
  • 誇官夸官
  • 誇張夸张 (kuāzhāng)
  • 誇張其辭夸张其辞
  • 誇張法夸张法
  • 誇強說會夸强说会
  • 誇才賣智夸才卖智
  • 誇海口夸海口
  • 誇獎夸奖 (kuājiǎng)
  • 誇示夸示 (kuāshì)
  • 誇耀夸耀 (kuāyào)
  • 誇能鬥智夸能斗智
  • 誇詡夸诩
  • 誇誇其談夸夸其谈
  • 誇誕夸诞
  • 誇說夸说
  • 誇讚夸赞
  • 誇辯夸辩
  • 誇飾夸饰 (kuāshì)
  • 逞異誇能逞异夸能

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. boast
  2. be proud
  3. pride
  4. triumphantly

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(gwa) (hangeul , revised gwa, McCuneReischauer kwa, Yale kwa)

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