刮
guā
Meaning
- to blow
- to scrape
- to shave
Definition
用刀具等去掉物体表面的东西；风吹；搜刮。
to scrape, to shave; (of wind) to blow; to extort.
Usage
常用于表示用工具去除表面物质，或表示风的吹拂，也可用于比喻搜刮财物。
Commonly used to describe removing something from a surface with a tool, the blowing of wind, or metaphorically to extort money or property.
Examples
- 1 他每天早上都要刮胡子。 (He shaves his beard every morning.)
- 2 外面刮起了大风。 (A strong wind is blowing outside.)
- 3 这个官员总是搜刮民脂民膏。 (This official always extorts the people's hard-earned money.)
- 4 用铲子把墙上的旧漆刮掉。 (Use a shovel to scrape off the old paint on the wall.)
- 5 他刮了一晚上的彩票，也没中奖。 (He scratched lottery tickets all night but didn't win.)
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