刮 (guā) means “to scrape; to blow; to shave; to plunder; to extort”. It is an HSK 6 Chinese character in the HSK 3.0 vocabulary.
外面刮起了大风。
Wàimiàn guā qǐ le dàfēng.
A strong wind is blowing outside.
Updated: 2026-05-27