誇 means “pride, boast”

ほこる · hokoru

Also: be proud, triumphantly

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

ほこる

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

コ

JLPT N1 · Taught in secondary school · 13 strokes

The story

Words (言) blown up big (夸, with 大 on top): boasting. 誇る is to take pride in, and towns advertise treasures 世界に誇る, to show the world; 誇り is pride, and 誇張 is exaggeration, words stretched past the truth.

Used in 誇り (hokori, pride), 誇る (hokoru, to be proud of), and 誇張 (kochou, exaggeration)

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