Meaning & readings
boast, be proud, pride, triumphantly
On’yomi コ
Kun’yomi ほこ.る
Origin
The left side, 言, is the radical for words and speech, which fits the meaning of boasting or bragging. The right side, 夸, serves as a sound hint telling you roughly how to pronounce the character. Together, these components build a character that represents proudly speaking about oneself or one's accomplishments — the idea of boasting through words.
Components
- 言
- 夸
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 13
- Kangxi radical
- 149
- Formation type
- Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint)
- Grade
- Jōyō (secondary school)
- Frequency rank
- #1272 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 1
- Unicode
- U+08A87