跨
kuà HSK6

straddle

跨 kuà
to step verb
to take a step; to stride; to step across or over something

她小心翼翼地跨过门槛。

tā xiǎo​xīn​yì​yì de kuà guò mén​kǎn.

She stepped over the threshold very carefully.

to cross over verb
to go beyond a certain boundary or limit; to cut across multiple fields, years, or regions

在世界所有国家中，只有十二个跨赤道的国家。

zài shì​jiè suǒ​yǒu guó​jiā zhōng, zhǐ​yǒu shí'èr ge kuà chì​dào de guó​jiā.

Among all countries in the world, only twelve straddle the Equator.

to span verbnoun
to span or cross over from above, such as a bridge across a river
to straddle
to straddle with one leg on each side; to bestride; to ride
side
(bound form) located at the side; lateral; secondary

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