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Translingual

Traditional
Shinjitai
(extended)
Simplified

Han character

(radical 72 +15, 19 strokes, cangjie input 日戈廿金 (AITC), four-corner 60086, composition)

  1. extensive, wide, broad
  2. empty

References

  • KangXi: page 501, character 24
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14245
  • Dae Jaweon: page 871, character 33
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1539, character 17
  • Unihan data for U+66E0

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kʷaːŋ
*kʷaːŋ
*kʷaːŋʔ
*kʷaːŋʔ, *qʰʷaːŋ
*kʰʷaːŋʔ, *kʰaːŋʔ
*kʰʷaːŋʔ, *kʰʷaːŋs, *qʰʷaːŋʔ
*kʰʷaːŋs
*kʰʷaːŋs
*kʰʷaːŋs
*kʰʷaːŋs
*ɡʷaːŋ
*ɡʷaːŋ
*ɡʷaːŋ, *ɡʷaːŋs
*ɡʷaːŋ
*ɡʷaːŋ
*ɡʷaːŋ
*ɡʷaːŋ
*ɡʷaːŋ
*ɡʷaːŋ
*ɡʷaːŋʔ
*ɡʷlaːŋs, *kʰʷaːɡ
*qʷaːŋʔ
*kʷaŋʔ, *kʷraːŋʔ
*kʷraːŋ
*kʷraːŋʔ
*kʷraːŋʔ
*kʷraːŋʔ
*ɡʷraːŋ, *ɡʷraːŋs
*ɡʷraːŋ
*ɡʷraːŋ
*qʰʷraːŋ
*kʷaːɡ, *qʰʷaːɡ
*kʷaːɡ, *qʰʷaːɡ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (29)
Final () (102)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kʰwɑŋH/
Pan
Wuyun
/kʰʷɑŋH/
Shao
Rongfen
/kʰuɑŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kʰwaŋH/
Li
Rong
/kʰuɑŋH/
Wang
Li
/kʰuɑŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kʰwɑŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
kuàng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
kuàng kuàng
Middle
Chinese
‹ khwangH › ‹ khwangH ›
Old
Chinese
/*[k-m̥]ˤaŋ-s/ /*kʷʰˤaŋ-s/
English desolate, waste bright

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 5373
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kʰʷaːŋs/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form )

  1. wide open space, void
  2. worthless

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(gwang) (hangeul , revised gwang, McCune-Reischauer kwang, Yale kwang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(khoảng, khoáng, quãng, thoáng)

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