跨
kuà HSK6

straddle

跨 kuà
span verb
to extend or stretch across a physical space or period of time

这项工程跨了两个年度。

zhè xiàng gōng​chéng kuà le liǎng gè nián​dù.

This project spanned two years.

step across verb
to step across or stride over something

他向前跨了一大步。

tā xiàng qián kuà le yī dà bù.

He took a big step forward.

straddle verb
to sit or stand with a leg on either side of something

他跨在自行车上跟我说话。

tā kuà zài zì​xíng​chē shàng gēn wǒ shuō​huà.

He was talking to me while straddling his bicycle.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,774th most common 48.6 per million
Movie subtitles
2,222nd most common 13.7 per million appears in 8% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
8.38 per million appears in 4% of films
Written text
51.1 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Strokes
13
Unicode
U+8DE8

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