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寬

寬

See also: 宽 and 寛

Translingual

Han character

寬 (radical 40 宀+12, 14 strokes, cangjie input 十廿月戈 (JTBI), four-corner 30216, composition ⿱宀萈)

References

  • KangXi: page 292, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7322
  • Dae Jaweon: page 578, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 947, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+5BEC

Chinese

trad. 寬
simp. 宽

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (萈) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
寬 *kʰoːn
髖 *kʰoːn, *kʰuːn
萈 *ɡoːn
臗 *kʰuːn

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kʰoːn) : semantic 宀 ‎(“house”) + phonetic 萈 ‎(OC *ɡoːn, “goat”).

House is spacious. See also 家.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 寬
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 桓 (62)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 苦官切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kʰuɑn/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kʰʷɑn/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kʰuɑn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kʰwan/
Li
Rong		 /kʰuɑn/
Wang
Li		 /kʰuɑn/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kʰuɑn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 kuān
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 寬
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 kuān
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ khwan ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[k]ʷʰˤa[n]/
English vast, wide

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 寬
Reading # 1/1
No. 5346
Phonetic
component		 萈
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 寬
Old
Chinese		 /*kʰoːn/

Definitions

寬

  1. wide, broad
  2. spacious, vast
  3. loose

Derived terms

Japanese

Kanji

寬

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

寬 • ‎(gwan) (hangeul 관, McCune-Reischauer kwan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

寬 (khoan, khoăn)

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