夸

The glyph centers on the concept of "excess" or "extension":

• Material/Behavioral Excess: Extravagant, luxurious, or ostentatious; often carries a negative connotation of vanity or crossing bounds of propriety.
• Physical Stature: Handsome or stately, referring to an imposing, broad, or well-proportioned physical presence.
• Verbal Excess: To boast, exaggerate, or overstate.

• Attributive Adjective: Typically modifies nouns relating to status, dress, or appearance (e.g., luxurious clothing; imposing features).
• Verb/Predicate: Functions as "to brag" or "to overstate," appearing as either transitive or intransitive.

The specific meaning depends on what is being measured: wealth, physical presence, or truth. In early strata, the glyph remains ambiguous between material and verbal excess.

• Relationship with 誇: These were frequently interchangeable in early texts. The addition of the mouth radical (口) served as a later semantic clarifier to specify the "boasting/speaking" sense.
• Variants: U+8A87, U+5938.

When encountering 夸 in early passages, do not rule out a verbal meaning simply because the mouth radical (口) is absent.