to scrape / to blow / to shave / to plunder / to extort

= + : In front of the ashram (a1) a terrible wind is blowing (刮). Gitta Giraffe (gu) can only advance by cutting the wind with a kitchen knife (刂). The wind is so strong that Gitta's tongue (舌) is being pulled out of her mouth and getting longer and longer.
to blow (of the wind)

= + : In front of the ashram (a1) a terrible wind is blowing (刮). Gitta Giraffe (gu) can only advance by cutting the wind with a kitchen knife (刂). The wind is so strong that Gitta's tongue (舌) is being pulled out of her mouth and getting longer and longer.

刮 character breakdown

Kangxi radical 18 (刀[dao1]) as a vertical side element / see also 立刀旁[li4 dao1 pang2] / see also 側刀旁|侧刀旁[ce4 dao1 pang2]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a kitchen knife. Don Quixote (d) is showing off his special knifes in front of the aorta (ao1). One is made from a dinosaur bone (丨), and the other is made from a crowbar (亅).
used in 喇舌[la3 ji1] to transcribe the Taiwanese word for "tongue"
tongue

= + : Sherlock Holmes squashed his tongue under a kilo just inside the elevator's kitchen! He tries to stem the kilo with a mandarin, but not very successfully.

Characters with 刮 as component

刮 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 刮

to shave one's face
lottery scratchcard
variant of 呱呱叫[gua1 gua1 jiao4]
scratch-and-win lottery
scraper / trowel / putty knife
to scrape off / to shave off (whiskers etc) / (of the wind) to blow sth away
peeler / potato peeler
see 刮目相看[gua1 mu4 xiang1 kan4]
to scrape one's car against sth / to sideswipe
scratch (wound) / scratch (damage to an object)

Sentences with 刮

刮 currently does not appear in any sentence.