廓

Translingual

Han character

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

1. broad, wide, open, empty
2. 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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

廓 (Yale gwok3, kwok3)

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Japanese

Kanji

廓

Readings

• On: かく (kaku)
• Kun: とりで (toride), くるわ (kuruwa)

Compounds

• 外廓
• 廓大
• 輪廓

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Korean

Hanja

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

1. (곽): girdle, circumference, outside, enclosure, wall
2. (확): wide, broad, large
3. (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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

廓 (pinyin kuò (kuo4), Wade-Giles k'uo⁴)