跨 (kuà): to stride, to cross
跨 (kuà) is a Chinese character meaning “to stride, to cross.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 足 (semantic) and 夸 (phonetic). It ranks #1757 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 跨 foot. Its radical form 足 (foot) appears in many related characters such as 跑 (pǎo, to run), 跟 (gēn, follow, heel), 路 (lù, road).
Definitions
- to stride, to cross
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 跨越 | kuà yuè | to step across |
| 跨过 | kuà guò | to surmount |
| 横跨 | héng kuà | to span |
| 跨国 | kuà guó | transnational |
| 跨国公司 | kuà guó gōng sī | transnational corporation |
| 跨步 | kuà bù | to take a (striding) step |
| 跨度 | kuà dù | span |
| 跨栏 | kuà lán | hurdles |
| 跨上 | kuà shàng | to mount (a horse, bike, flight of stairs, rickshaw etc) |
| 跨越式 | kuà yuè shì | breakthrough |
| 跨性别 | kuà xìng bié | transgender |
| 跨国化 | kuà guó huà | to internationalize |
| 跨地区 | kuà dì qū | interregional |
| 跨学科 | kuà xué kē | interdisciplinary |
| 跨文化 | kuà wén huà | intercultural |
跨 appears in 35 compound words: 97 as the first character, 3 as the last, and 0 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 跨 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (1)
Example Sentences
跨过这道门槛，你就进入了新的阶段。
Kuà guò zhè dào ménkǎn, nǐ jiù jìnrù le xīn de jiēduàn.
Cross this threshold, and you enter a new phase.
跨越八百里守护 湘雅医院助超早产三胞胎平安...
kuà yuè bā bǎi lǐ shǒu hù 湘 yǎ yī yuàn zhù chāo zǎo chǎn sān bāo tāi píng ān . . .
Spanning 800 miles to protect Xiangya Hospital to help the safety of premature triplets...
跨区出行需求活跃,冬奥会带火冰雪旅游热
kuà qū chū háng xū qiú huó yuè , dōng ào huì dài huǒ bīng xuě lǚ yóu rè
The demand for cross-regional travel is active, and the Winter Olympics will bring fire to ice and snow tourism
视频丨跨越4000多公里 为了让援疆民警尝到家的...
shì pín 丨 kuà yuè 4 0 0 0 duō gōng lǐ wéi le ràng yuán jiāng mín jǐng cháng dào jiā de . . .
Video丨Spanning more than 4,000 kilometers, in order to let the police who aid Xinjiang taste home...
新春跨境消费实现“丝滑”扫码,解锁人民币“走出...
xīn chūn kuà jìng xiāo fèi shí xiàn sī huá sǎo mǎ , xiè suǒ rén mín bì zǒu chū . . .
Cross-border consumption during the Spring Festival achieved seamless QR code scanning, unlocking the renminbi's "exit..."
大年初一全社会跨区域人员流动量超2.1亿人次 全国..
dà nián chū yī quán shè huì kuà ōu yù rén yuán liú dòng liáng chāo . yì rén cì quán guó . .
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, cross-regional travel across the country exceeded 210 million trips.
阿尔卑斯山地跨欧洲八国。
ā'ěrbēisī shāndì kuà ōuzhōu bā guó.
The Alps extend across eight European countries.
跨国公司预料到了规模经济的实行。
Kuàguógōngsī yùliào dào le guīmó jīngjì de shíxíng.
The multinational corporation has forecast the implementation of economies of scale.
他们建了一座横跨河流的桥。
Tāmen jiàn le yī zuò héngkuà héliú de qiáo.
They built a bridge across the river.
跨国企业远胜于传统的单一国家企业。
Kuàguó qǐyè yuǎn shèng yú chuántǒng de dānyī guójiā qǐyè.
Multinational corporations outperform traditional corporations operating in just one country.
Character Family
足 Radical Family — Characters sharing the foot radical
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