夸
kuā HSK7

exaggerate

夸 誇 kuā frequency
to boast verbadjective
To boast; to exaggerate; to brag or show off
to praise verb
To praise; to commend; to speak highly of

你真的是在夸我吗？

nǐ zhēn​de shì zài kuā wǒ ma?

Are you actually complimenting me?

big
(bound form) big; lavish; coarse
夸 kuā
[transliteration]
Used in transliteration and in names from mythology, such as 夸父 kuā​fù and 夸娥 kuā'é
extravagant
(literary) Extravagant; luxurious; grand.
fine
(literary) Beautiful or fine; big or grand.
Kua
A Chinese surname.

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Frequency
Character
Written text
1,955th most common 39.2 per million
Movie subtitles
1,742nd most common 30.0 per million appears in 17% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
7.36 per million appears in 3% of films
Written text
8.96 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Traditional
誇
Strokes
6
Unicode
U+5938

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