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曠

曠

See also: 旷 and 昿

Translingual

Traditional 曠
Shinjitai
(extended) 		昿
Simplified 旷

Han character

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

  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. 曠
simp. 旷

Glyph origin

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

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 曠
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 唐 (102)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 苦謗切
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 曠 曠
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 曠
Reading # 1/1
No. 5373
Phonetic
component		 黄
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 曠
Old
Chinese		 /*kʰʷaːŋs/

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曠

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Japanese

Kanji

曠

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

  1. wide open space, void
  2. worthless

Readings

Korean

Hanja

曠 • ‎(gwang) (hangeul 광, revised gwang, McCune-Reischauer kwang, Yale kwang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

曠 (khoảng, khoáng, quãng, thoáng)

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