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刮 — to scrape; to blow; to shave

to scrape; to blow; to shave; to plunder; to extort

Pinyin
guā
Strokes
8
HSK level
HSK 3
Handwriting
recognition only

How to write 刮: 8 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

刮 — 8 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 刮 in the HSK syllabus: 2

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 刮guāto scrape; to blow; to shave; to plunder; to extortHSK 3
  2. 刮目相看guāmù-xiāngkànto have a whole new level of respect for sb or sthHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.