刮
Tap the pinyin to hear it
to scrape; to blow; to shave; to plunder; to extort
- HSK 3.0
- Level 6
- Old HSK
- Level 3
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 刀 +6
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 刮
- Common rank
- #2,205
- Unicode
- U+522E
Sound it out + + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
scrape · Heisig RSH #1515
舌 tongue + saber
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 刮
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 刮目相看 | to have a whole new level of respect for sb or sth; to sit up and take notice (of sb's imp… | |
| 刮目相待 | see 刮目相看[gua1 mu4 xiang1 kan4] | |
| 耳刮子 | (coll.) a slap on the side of the head | |
| 雨刮器 | windshield wiper | |
| 刮胡子 | to shave (facial hair) | |
| 刮皮刀 | peeler; potato peeler | |
| 刮胡刀 | razor | |
| 刮风 | to be windy | |
| 刮刀 | spatula; scraper | |
| 雨刮 | windshield wiper | |
| 刮脸 | to shave one's face | |
| 刮伤 | scratch (wound); scratch (damage to an object) | |
| 刮刮卡 | lottery scratchcard | |
| 刮刮乐 | scratch-and-win lottery | |
| 搜肠刮肚 | to search one's guts and belly (idiom); to racks one's brains for a solution | |
| 刮掉 | to scrape off; to shave off (whiskers etc); (of the wind) to blow sth away | |
| 顶刮刮 | variant of 頂呱呱|顶呱呱[ding3 gua1 gua1] | |
| 刮擦 | to scrape | |
| 刮刮叫 | variant of 呱呱叫[gua1 gua1 jiao4] | |
| 搜刮 | to rake in (money); to plunder; to milk people dry |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 舌 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 舌 sound part | tongue; bell clapper | |
| 活 | to exist, to live, to survive; living, working | |
| 舍 | house, dwelling; to reside, to dwell; to abandon, to give up | |
| 适 | match, comfortable; just | |
| 括 | to embrace, to enclose, to include | |
| 恬 | calm, peaceful; quiet, tranquil | |
| 蛞 | snail, slug; mole cricket | |
| 栝 | a builder's frame for measuring | |
| 鸹 | crow |