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Translingual

Traditional
Shinjitai
Simplified

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

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

Han character

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

  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.
simp.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (33)
Final () (102)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () I
Fanqie
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
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
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 5390 5407
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡʷlaːŋs/ /*kʰʷaːɡ/
Notes

Verb

  1. to expand, enlarge or stretch

Japanese

Kanji

(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

(hwak, gwang) (hangeul 확, , 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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