挎
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to carry (esp. slung over the arm, shoulder or side)
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 手 +6
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 挎
- Common rank
- #3,989
- Unicode
- U+630E
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
carry on the arm · Heisig RSH #2290
fingers + 夸 brag
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 挎
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 斜挎包 | crossbody bag | |
| 挎兜儿 | erhua variant of 挎兜[kua4 dou1] | |
| 挎包 | satchel; bag | |
| 挎斗 | sidecar | |
| 挎兜 | satchel; backpack |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 夸 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 夸 sound part | extravagant, luxurious; handsome | |
| 跨 | to straddle, to ride; to span, to stretch across | |
| 垮 | to be defeated, to collapse, to fail | |
| 胯 | pelvis, groin; thighs | |
| 侉 | to speak with an accent; big and clumsy | |
| 瓠 | bottle gourd, calabash | |
| 刳 | to cut open, to dig out, to rip up, to scoop out |