寬

See also 宽, and 寛

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 宀 (“house”) + phonetic 萈 (“goat”)

House is spacious. See also 家.

Han character

寬 (radical 40 宀+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 十廿月戈 (JTBI), four-corner 3021₆)

1. broad, wide
2. spacious, vast

References

• KangXi: page 292, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7322
• Dae Jaweon: page 578, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 947, character 1
• Unihan data for U+5BEC

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Cantonese

Hanzi

寬 (simplified 宽, Yale fun1)

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Japanese

Kanji

寬

Readings

• On: かん (kan)
• Kun: ひろい (hiroi), ゆるやか (yuruyaka), くつろぐ (kutsurogu)

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Korean

Hanja

寬 (hangeul 관, revised gwan, McCune-Reischauer kwan)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

寬 (simplified 宽, pinyin kuān (kuan1), Wade-Giles k'uan¹)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

寬 (kuɑn)

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Vietnamese

Han character

寬 (khoan, khoăn)