U+5938 "夸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
夸
U+5938 "夸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to boast" or "to praise" and is composed of the components "大" (large/big) above and "亏" (deficient/loss) below, though the lower part originally referred to a type of speech or sound in ancient scripts. It is used in modern Chinese in words like "夸张" (exaggeration) and "夸奖" (to compliment), and it also appears in some Japanese kanji usage as the graphical simplification of "誇" in the tōyō kanji list. Historically, the character’s form evolved from seal script representations, where it conveyed the idea of exalting or exaggerating beyond reality, blending notions of size and speech.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5938 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 夸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 夸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xA4 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5938 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005938 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5938 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A66A |
| kCCCII | 21392D |
| kCNS1986 | 1-476B |
| kCNS1992 | 1-476B |
| kCangjie | KMMS |
| kCantonese | kwaa1 |
| kCihaiT | 369.501 |
| kCowles | 2112 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0509.090 |
| kDefinition | extravagant, luxurious; handsome |
| kEACC | 275861 |
| kFanqie | 苦瓜 |
| kFenn | 242K |
| kFennIndex | 264.06 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4020.7 |
| kGB0 | 3168 |
| kGB1 | 8841 |
| kGSR | 0043a |
| kHangul | 과:1N |
| kHanYu | 10526.050 |
| kHanyuPinlu | kuā(43) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10526.050:kuā,kuà,kuǎ |
| kHKGlyph | 0844 |
| kIICore | AGTHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0509.090 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10526.050 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0250.020 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3F64 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A66A |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5472 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-3CA4 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-594F |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-476B |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-514E |
| kJapanese | カ コ ケ ク おごる |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:395 |
| kJapaneseKun | OGORU |
| kJapaneseOn | KO KA |
| kJis0 | 5282 |
| kKangXi | 0250.020 |
| kKarlgren | 438 |
| kKorean | KWA |
| kLau | 1726 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1139 |
| kMandarin | kuā |
| kMatthews | 3526 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1352 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ009468 MJ009468:E0101 MJ009469:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 05854 05854:E0101 |
| kPhonetic | 701 1602B |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+4547+37.3.3 |
| kRSUnicode | 37.3 |
| kSBGY | 166.17 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+8A87<kMeyerWempe |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "夸" U+5938 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 148.01 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | kuā粵kwaa1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1139 |
| kTang | kua |
| kTGHZ2013 | 200.040,200.050:kuā |
| kTotalStrokes | 6 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "夸" U+5938 CJK Unified Ideograph-# "誇" U+8A87 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJMT |
| kVietnamese | khoa |
| kXerox | 273:077 |
| kXHC1983 | 0655.070:kuā |