Taxonomy of meanings for 誇:　　

  • 誇 kuā (OC: khʷraa MC: kʰʷɯa) 苦瓜切 平 廣韻：【大言也苦瓜切八 】
    • BOAST
      • nabactboasting
    • EXAGGERATE
      • viactmake big words, exaggerate; be grandiloquent; be boastful
      • vtoNbrag in front of
    • PRAISE
      • BIG
        • BEAUTIFUL

          Additional information about 誇

          說文解字: 【誇】，譀也。从言、夸聲。 【苦瓜切】

            Criteria
          • EXAGGERATE

            1. The general word for exaggeration is kuā 誇.

            2. Huāng táng 荒唐 refers to an extravagant and exaggerated use of language. See EXTRAVAGANT

          • BOAST

            [COMMENDATORY/DEROGATORY]

            [EPISODIC/LASTING]

            [GENERAL/SPECIFIC]

            [HIGH-DEGREE/LOW-DEGREE]

            [PRACTICAL/VERBAL]

            1. The commonest general word is probably jīn 矜 which refers to any degree of grandiloquence or bragging.

            [GENERAL], [VERBAL]

            2. Fá 伐 is an extreme form of bragging that clearly arouses negative reactions.

            [DEROGATORY], [EPISODIC], [HIGH-DEGREE], [VERBAL]

            3. Shī 施 is to show off, typically also through actions.

            [EPISODIC], [PRACTICAL!]

            4. Kuā 誇 refers to acts of grandiloquence not exclusively concerned with oneself. See EXAGGERATE.

            [EPISODIC], [VERBAL]

            5. Dàn 誕 tends to refer to boastfulness not as a concrete episode, but as a permanent feature of a person given to fraudulent self-aggrandising exaggeration.

            [LASTING], [VERBAL]

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