guàkuā

obstructed

Components
糹 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

silk

thread

圭 sound component

  Sound component

guī

  

jade pointed at top

Evolution

絓 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
絓 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

𮉤 () 

guà

obstructed; hindered

 

guà

to hinder; to offend; to form; unique

 

kuā

type of coarse silk; bag used to wrap silk before washing

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[k]ʷˤre-s

kweaH

guà

entangled


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

9814th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Simplified

Unicode

U+7D53

Shuowen

“絓,繭滓絓頭也。一曰以囊絮練也。从糸,圭聲。”


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