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廣

廣

See also: 广

Translingual

Traditional 廣
Shinjitai 広
Simplified 广

Han character

廣 (radical 53 广+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 戈廿一金 (ITMC), four-corner 00286, composition ⿸广黃 or ⿸广黄)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 351, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9493
  • Dae Jaweon: page 663, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 897, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+5EE3

Chinese

trad. 廣
simp. 广
alt. forms 広

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 廣
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (黄) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
横 *kʷaːŋ
僙 *kʷaːŋ
廣 *kʷaːŋʔ
鄺 *kʷaːŋʔ, *qʰʷaːŋ
懬 *kʰʷaːŋʔ, *kʰaːŋʔ
爌 *kʰʷaːŋʔ, *kʰʷaːŋs, *qʰʷaːŋʔ
曠 *kʰʷaːŋs
矌 *kʰʷaːŋs
壙 *kʰʷaːŋs
纊 *kʰʷaːŋs
黃 *ɡʷaːŋ
璜 *ɡʷaːŋ
潢 *ɡʷaːŋ, *ɡʷaːŋs
簧 *ɡʷaːŋ
癀 *ɡʷaːŋ
鱑 *ɡʷaːŋ
獚 *ɡʷaːŋ
蟥 *ɡʷaːŋ
趪 *ɡʷaːŋ
櫎 *ɡʷaːŋʔ
擴 *ɡʷlaːŋs, *kʰʷaːɡ
瀇 *qʷaːŋʔ
獷 *kʷaŋʔ, *kʷraːŋʔ
觵 *kʷraːŋ
礦 *kʷraːŋʔ
鑛 *kʷraːŋʔ
穬 *kʷraːŋʔ
橫 *ɡʷraːŋ, *ɡʷraːŋs
黌 *ɡʷraːŋ
鐄 *ɡʷraːŋ
嚝 *qʰʷraːŋ
彉 *kʷaːɡ, *qʰʷaːɡ
彍 *kʷaːɡ, *qʰʷaːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kʷaːŋʔ) : semantic 广 + phonetic 黃 ‎(OC *ɡʷaːŋ).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 廣
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 唐 (102)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 古晃切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kwɑŋX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kʷɑŋX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kuɑŋX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kwaŋX/
Li
Rong		 /kuɑŋX/
Wang
Li		 /kuɑŋX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kwɑŋX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 guǎng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 廣 廣
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 guǎng guǎng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kwangX › ‹ kwangH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*kʷˤaŋʔ/ /*kʷˤaŋʔ-s/
English wide distance from east to west

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 廣
Reading # 1/1
No. 5368
Phonetic
component		 黄
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 廣
Old
Chinese		 /*kʷaːŋʔ/

Definitions

廣

  1. broad, wide, extensive, vast
  2. Short for 廣州／广州 (Guǎngzhōu, “Guangzhou”).
  3. Short for 廣東／广东 (Guǎngdōng, “Guangdong”).

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

廣

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 広)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

廣 • ‎(gwang)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 광()
  • Name (hangeul): 넓을()
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Vietnamese

Han character

廣 (quảng, quẳng, quãng, rộng)

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