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擴

擴

See also: 扩

Translingual

Traditional 擴
Shinjitai 拡
Simplified 扩

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡʷlaːŋs, *kʰʷaːɡ) : semantic 扌 ‎(“hand”) + phonetic 廣 ‎(OC *kʷaːŋʔ) -- to stretch or enlarge with hands.

Han character

擴 (radical 64 手+15, 18 strokes, cangjie input 手戈廿金 (QITC), four-corner 50086, composition ⿰扌廣)

  1. expand, enlarge, stretch

References

  • KangXi: page 461, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12895
  • Dae Jaweon: page 810, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1975, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+64F4

Chinese

trad. 擴
simp. 扩

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 擴
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 唐 (102)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 乎曠切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦwɑŋH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦʷɑŋH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣuɑŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦwaŋH/
Li
Rong		 /ɣuɑŋH/
Wang
Li		 /ɣuɑŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɣwɑŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 huàng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 擴
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 擴 擴
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 5390 5407
Phonetic
component		 黄 黄
Rime
group		 陽 鐸
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 攩
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡʷlaːŋs/ /*kʰʷaːɡ/
Notes 同攩 見孟子

Verb

擴

  1. to expand, enlarge or stretch

Japanese

Kanji

擴

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

  • On: かく (kaku)
  • Kun: ひろがる (hirogaru), ひろげる (hirogeru), はる (haru)

Korean

Hanja

擴 • ‎(hwak, gwang) (hangeul 확, 광, revised hwak, gwang, McCune-Reischauer hwak, kwang, Yale hwak, kwang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

  • Hán Việt: quẳng, huếch, khoác, khoách, khuếch
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