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廓

廓

Translingual

Han character

廓 (radical 53 广+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 戈卜木中 (IYDL), four-corner 0022₇, composition ⿸广郭)

broad, wide, open, empty
to expand

Related characters

Unicode Z-variant character, Unicode U+FA0B: (Unihan data for U+FA0B)

References

KangXi: page 350, character 1

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9461

Dae Jaweon: page 661, character 4

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 895, character 13

Unihan data for U+5ED3

Chinese

simp. and trad.		廓

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (郭) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
郭	*kʷaːɡ
埻	tjunʔ, kʷaːɡ, *kʷreːɡ
崞	*kʷaːɡ
椁	*kʷaːɡ
槨	*kʷaːɡ
噋	tʰuːn, kʰʷaːɡ
廓	*kʰʷaːɡ
鞹	*kʰʷaːɡ
漷	kʰʷaːɡ, qʰʷraːɡ
霩	*qʰʷaːɡ

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): kuò (kuo⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄎㄨㄛˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): kwok³, gwok³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: kuò
  - Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄛˋ
  - Wade-Giles: k'o⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kuoh
  - IPA ^(key): /kʰu̯ɔ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: kwok³, gwok³
  - Yale: kwok, gwok
  - Cantonese Pinyin: kwok⁸, gwok⁸
  - IPA ^(key): /kʷʰɔːk̚³/, /kʷɔːk̚³/

Middle Chinese: /kʰwɑk̚/▼

Rime
Character	廓
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	鐸 (104)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	苦郭切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰwɑk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰʷɑk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰuɑk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰwak̚/
Li Rong	/kʰuɑk̚/
Wang Li	/kʰuɑk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/kʰwɑk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	kuo

Old Chinese▼

(Baxter-Sagart): /*kʷʰˤak/

(Zhengzhang): /*kʰʷaːɡ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	廓
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	kuò
Middle Chinese	‹ khwak ›
Old Chinese	/*kʷʰˤak/
English	widen
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	廓
Reading #	1/1
No.	4758
Phonetic component	郭
Rime group	鐸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	廓
Old Chinese	/*kʰʷaːɡ/

Definitions

廓

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Compounds

寥廓
廓土
廓填
廓廓
廓清

廓爾喀人／廓尔喀人
廓落
恢廓
恢廓大度
摧陷廓清

空廓
膚廓／肤廓
輪廓／轮廓 (lúnkuò)
雙鉤廓填／双钩廓填

References

(Cantonese) Multi-function Chinese Character Database (漢語多功能字庫)

Japanese

Kanji

廓

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

On: かく (kaku)

Kun: とりで (toride), くるわ (kuruwa)

Compounds

外廓
廓大
輪廓

Korean

Hanja

廓 • ‎(gwak, hwak) (hangeul 곽, 확, revised gwak, hwak, McCune-Reischauer kwak, hwak)

(곽): girdle, circumference, outside, enclosure, wall
(확): wide, broad, large
(확): to widen, broaden, enlarge

Synonyms

(girdle): 郭 ‎(곽, gwak)
(wide): 廣 ‎(광, gwang)
(widen): 擴 ‎(확, hwak)

Compounds

遊廓 ‎(유곽, yu-gwak): brothel, whorehouse
輪廓 ‎(윤곽, yun-gwak): outline, overview

Vietnamese

Han character

廓 (quách)

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