夸 (誇) kuā
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kuā
verb
to exaggerate
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Unihan '誇') -
kuā
verb
to brag; to boast
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Unihan '誇') -
kuā
verb
to flaunt
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Unihan '誇')
Contained in
- 有宝何必人前夸(有寶何必人前誇) There is no need to boast about one's treasures.
- 骄夸(驕誇) proud; boastful
- 夸大(誇大) to exaggerate
- 下夸克 down quark (particle physics)
- 夸海口(誇海口) to boast; to talk big
- 顶夸克(頂夸克) top quark (particle physics)
- 夸夸其谈(誇誇其談) to talk big; to sound off; bombastic; grandiloquent
- 夸奖(誇獎) to praise; to applaud; to compliment
- 夸多斗靡(誇多鬥靡) to compete to produce extravagant literary works
- 好自矜夸(好自矜誇) fond of boasting
- 王婆卖瓜，自卖自夸(王婆賣瓜，自賣自誇) every potter praises his own pot; all one's geese are swans
- 夸张法(誇張法) exaggeration; overstatement
- 夸大之词(誇大之詞) hyperbole; exaggeration
- 浮夸 grandiose ; to exaggerate; to be boastful; pompous; grandiose
- 夸张(誇張) to exaggerate; to overstate
- 自夸(自誇) to boast
- 底夸克 bottom quark
- 夸休可尔症(誇休可爾症) kwashiorkor
- 奇异夸克(奇異夸克) strange quark
- 夸姣 beautiful
- 虚夸(虛誇) to boast; to brag; boastful; exaggerative; pompous; bombastic
- 夸下海口(誇下海口) to boast a mouth as big as the sea; to exaggerate
- 夸口(誇口) to boast
- 上夸克 up quark (particle physics)
- 夸耀(誇耀) to brag about; to flaunt
- 粲夸克 charm quark (particle physics)
- 夸称(誇稱) to praise; to acclaim; to commend; to compliment
- 夸大其词(誇大其詞) to exaggerate
- 夸赞(誇讚) to exaggerate with praise
- 老王卖瓜，自卖自夸(老王賣瓜，自賣自誇) every potter praises his own pot; all one's geese are swans
- 夸克 a quark
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- 第十回 Chapter 10 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 3
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Collocations
- 矜夸 (矜誇) 矜夸妄誕則貪惑於物也 — Xunzi 荀子, 不苟篇第三 Chapter 3: Nothing Carelessly — count: 8
- 眭夸 (眭誇) 逸士傳有眭夸 — Book of Wei 魏書, 卷8 世宗紀 Volum 8 Annals: Shizong (Emperor Xuanwu) — count: 8
- 欲夸 (欲誇) 楚王欲誇之 — Xin Shu 新書, Scroll 7 — count: 7
- 夸诞 (誇誕) 非夸誕也 — Xunzi 荀子, 不苟篇第三 Chapter 3: Nothing Carelessly — count: 7
- 夸父 (誇父) 役夸父 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷二 俶真訓 Chapter 2: Starting with the Truth — count: 6
- 夸奢 (誇奢) 故其俗夸奢 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷二十八下 地理志 Volume 28b: Treatise on Geography 2 — count: 3
- 夸毗 (誇毗) 無為夸毗 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 大雅‧生民之什‧板 Greater odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Sheng Min - Ban — count: 3
- 夸矜 (誇矜) 此宜夸矜見所長 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《劉敬叔孫通列傳》 Biographies of Liu Jing and Shusun Tong — count: 3
- 夸丽 (誇麗) 非特以為淫泰夸麗之聲 — Xunzi 荀子, 富國篇第十 Chapter 10: Enriching the State — count: 3
- 夸诞生 (誇誕生) 夸誕生惑 — Xunzi 荀子, 不苟篇第三 Chapter 3: Nothing Carelessly — count: 2