刮
guā HSK6

to scrape, shave

刮 guā frequency
blow verb
to blow (specifically of the wind)

外面刮起了大风。

wài​miàn guā qǐ le dà​fēng.

A strong wind has started blowing outside.

scrape verb
to scrape a surface or shave hair

爸爸每天早起后的第一件事，就是对着镜子刮胡子。

bà​ba měi tiān zǎo​qǐ hòu de dì​yī jiàn shì, jiù shì duì​zhe jìng​zi guā hú​zi.

The first thing my dad does every morning after waking up is shave his beard in front of the mirror.

extort verb
to plunder or extort money from people

那个贪官从百姓身上刮了不少钱。

nà gè tān​guān cóng bǎi​xìng shēn​shang guā le bù​shǎo qián.

That corrupt official squeezed a lot of money out of the people.

刮 (颳) guā
blow verb
to blow (of the wind)

昨天夜里外面一直刮大风，把花园里的树都吹倒了。

zuó​tiān yè​li wài​miàn yī​zhí guā dà​fēng, bǎ huā​yuán lǐ de shù dōu chuī​dǎo le.

It was very windy outside all last night, and the trees in the garden were blown down.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,350th most common 23.6 per million
Movie subtitles
1,989th most common 19.6 per million appears in 10% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
22.4 per million appears in 8% of films
Written text
22.9 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Traditional
颳
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+522E

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)