刮

See also 颳

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 𠯑 + semantic 刀 (“knife”)

Han character

刮 (radical 18 刀+6, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹口中弓 (HRLN), four-corner 2260₀)

1. shave, pare off, scrape

References

• KangXi: page 138, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1943
• Dae Jaweon: page 314, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 335, character 3
• Unihan data for U+522E

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Cantonese

Hanzi

刮 (traditional 颳, Yale gwaat3)

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Japanese

Kanji

刮

Readings

• On: かつ (katsu), けち (kechi)
• Kun: けずる (kezuru), きさぐ (kisagu), きさげ (kisage), こそぐ (kosogu), こそげる (kosogeru)

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Korean

Hanja

刮 (hangeul 괄, revised gwal, McCune-Reischauer kwal)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

刮 (traditional 颳, pinyin guā (gua1), Wade-Giles kua¹)