刮 — Chinese character
刮
guā
to shave; to scrape; to blow
- Pinyin
- guā
- Radical
- 18 ⼑ (Knife)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 舌 刂
- Formation
- pictophonetic — knife; meaning component 刂; sound component 舌
- Traditional
- 颳
- Japanese
- 刮 as a kanji
Common words with 刮
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 搜刮 | sōu guā | to rake in (money); to plunder; to milk people dry |
| 刮目相看 | guā mù xiāng kàn | to have a whole new level of respect for sb or sth; to sit up and take notice (of sb's improved performance etc) |
| 刮伤 (刮傷) | guā shāng | scratch (wound); scratch (damage to an object) |
| 刮风 (颳風) | guā fēng | to be windy |
| 刮痧 | guā shā | gua sha (technique in TCM) |
| 刮脸 (刮臉) | guā liǎn | to shave one's face |
| 刮刀 | guā dāo | spatula; scraper |
| 刮胡子 (刮鬍子) | guā hú zi | to shave (facial hair) |
| 刮掉 | guā diào | to scrape off; to shave off (whiskers etc) |
| 刮胡刀 (刮鬍刀) | guā hú dāo | razor |
| 刮刮卡 | guā guā kǎ | lottery scratchcard |
| 耳刮子 | ěr guā zi | (coll.) a slap on the side of the head |
English words written with 刮
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.