kuà

straddle

Components
足 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

foot

foot

夸 sound component

  Sound component

kuā

  

see 夸克[kuā​kè]

Evolution

跨 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
跨 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

kuà

straddle, bestride, ride; carry; to step across; to stride over; to straddle; to span

Most common words with 跨
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to span

跨越

step over

跨过

to surmount

跨国

transnational

跨国公司

transnational corporation

Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 8.1852% of movies

2222nd most common character in movies

1774th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+8DE8

Shuowen

“跨,渡也。从足,夸聲。”


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