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Mythic Mandarin

跨 (kuà): meaning and stroke order

跨 (kuà) means to step across, to stride over, to straddle, to span.

跨

Simplified
跨
Traditional
跨 (same form)
Pinyin
kuà

Stroke order of 跨

跨

  • kuà to step across; to stride over
  • 13 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 跨

  1. kuà
    • to step across
    • to stride over
    • to straddle
    • to span

Radical and structure

跨
Radical 足 (Kangxi radical 157) · 13 strokes · 𧾷 on the left, 夸 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

跨 in our stories

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  • 他身材高大，两只耳朵上挂着黄蛇，手里也握着黄蛇，一步能跨过一座山丘。

    tā shēncái gāodà liǎng zhī ěrduo shàng guà zhe huángshé shǒu lǐ yě wò zhe huángshé yí bù néng kuà guò yí zuò shānqiū

    He was enormous: yellow snakes hung from his ears and he held yellow snakes in his hands, and a single stride carried him over a hill.

    From the story Kuafu chases the sun HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 跨

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).