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闊

闊

See also: 阔

Translingual

Han character

闊 (radical 169 門+9, 17 strokes, cangjie input 日弓水竹口 (ANEHR), four-corner 77164)

References

  • KangXi: page 1338, character 30
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41429
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1844, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4310, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+95CA

Chinese

trad. 闊
simp. 阔

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (桰) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
咶 *qʰroːds, *qʰroːds, *ɡroːd
話 *ɡroːds
刮 *kroːd
鴰 *kroːd, *koːd
趏 *kroːd, *kʰroːd
舌 *ɡroːd, *ɦbljed
姡 *ɡroːd, *ɡoːd
頢 *ɡroːd, *koːd
括 *koːd
活 *koːd, *ɡoːd
适 *koːd, *kʰoːd
栝 *koːd, *l̥ʰeːmʔ
佸 *koːd, *ɡoːd
髺 *koːd
聒 *koːd
銛 *koːd, *slem, *l̥ʰeːmʔ
葀 *koːd
懖 *koːd
筈 *koːd, *kʰoːd
萿 *koːd
蛞 *kʰoːd
闊 *kʰoːd
秳 *ɡoːd

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 闊
Mandarin Beijing /kʰuo⁵¹/
Harbin /kʰuo⁵³/
Tianjin /kʰuo⁵³/
Jinan /kʰuə²¹³/
Qingdao /kʰuə⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /kʰuo²⁴/
Xi'an /kʰuo²¹/
Xining /kʰu⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /kʰuə¹³/
Lanzhou /kʰuə¹³/
Ürümqi /kʰuɤ²¹³/
Wuhan /kʰuo²¹³/
Chengdu /kʰue³¹/
Guiyang /kʰuɛ²¹/
Kunming /kʰo³¹/
Nanjing /kʰueʔ⁵/
Hefei /kʰuɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /kʰuaʔ²/
Pingyao /kʰuʌʔ¹³/
Hohhot /kʰuaʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /kʰuəʔ⁵/
Suzhou /kʰuəʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /kʰuoʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /kʰo²¹³/
Hui Shexian /kʰuaʔ²¹/
Tunxi /kʰuːə⁵/
Xiang Changsha /kʰo²⁴/
Xiangtan /kʰo²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /kʰuɵʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /fat̚¹/
Taoyuan /fɑt̚²²/
Cantonese Guangzhou /fut̚³/
Nanning /fut̚³³/
Hong Kong /fut̚³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /kʰuat̚³²/
/kʰuaʔ³²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /kʰuɑʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /kʰuɛ²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /kʰuaʔ²/
Haikou (Min Nan) /xua⁵⁵/
Rime
Character 闊
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 末 (64)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 苦栝切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kʰuɑt̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kʰʷɑt̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kʰuɑt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kʰwat̚/
Li
Rong		 /kʰuɑt̚/
Wang
Li		 /kʰuɑt̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kʰuɑt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 kuo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 闊 闊
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 kuò kuò
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ khwat › ‹ khwat ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[k]ʰˤot/ /*[k]ʷʰˤat/
English 契闊 khet.khwat hard-working (Ode 31.4) widely apart

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 闊
Reading # 1/1
No. 7584
Phonetic
component		 桰
Rime
group		 月
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese		 /*kʰoːd/

Definitions

闊

  1. broad, wide

Japanese

Kanji

闊

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

闊 • ‎(hwal) (hangeul 활, revised hwal, McCune-Reischauer hwal, Yale hwal)

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Vietnamese

Han character

闊 (khoát, khoắt)

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