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刮

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HSK 3#3910 by frequencyradical 刂

guā["v"]

to scrape; to blow; to shave; to plunder; to extort; to blow (of the wind)

guā

to blow (of the wind)

Examples

今天刮冷风。

The wind is cold today.

刮的是北风。

A north wind is blowing.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.