Chinese symbol for “straddle”
跨
kuà
to step across; to stride over; to straddle; to span
The closest CC-CEDICT match for straddle is 跨 (kuà), defined as: to step across; to stride over; to straddle; to span.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 跨.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 跨越 | kuà yuè | to step across; step over |
| 跨国 (跨國) | kuà guó | transnational; multinational |
| 横跨 (橫跨) | héng kuà | to span; to stretch across |
| 跨境 | kuà jìng | cross-border |
| 跨国公司 (跨國公司) | kuà guó gōng sī | transnational corporation; multinational corporation |
| 跨度 | kuà dù | span; horizontal distance between vertical supports |
See also: Japanese symbol for “straddle”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.