See also: and
U+5BEC, 寬
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5BEC

[U+5BEB]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5BED]

TranslingualEdit

Traditional
Shinjitai
Simplified

Alternative formsEdit

  • In Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japanese kanji, Korean hanja and Vietnamese Nôm, the component above is written with (ram's horn component), which is the orthodox form found in the Kangxi dictionary.
  • In mainland China (based on Xin Zixing, 新字形), the component above is written with (grass radical).

Han characterEdit

(Kangxi radical 40, +12 in traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean, 宀+11 in mainland China, 15 strokes in traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean, 14 strokes in mainland China, cangjie input 十廿月戈 (JTBI), four-corner 30216, composition or (G) or (HTJKV))

Usage notesEdit

This character is not to be confused with (U+5BDB), a Japanese shinjitai character, which has one dot missing and is encoded as a separate character.

Derived charactersEdit

Related charactersEdit

ReferencesEdit

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

ChineseEdit

trad.
simp.
alternative forms

Glyph originEdit

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kʰoːn): semantic (house) + phonetic (OC *ɡoːn, goat)—a spacious house.

See also .

PronunciationEdit


Note:
  • khoan - literary;
  • khoaⁿ - vernacular.
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: kuang1 / kuêng1 / kuan1 / kuan3
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: khuang / khueng / khuaⁿ / khuàⁿ
    • Sinological IPA (key): /kʰuaŋ³³/, /kʰueŋ³³/, /kʰũã³³/, /kʰũã²¹³/
Note:
  • kuang1/kuêng1 - literary (kuêng1 - Chaozhou);
  • kuan1 - vernacular ("slow", also written as );
  • kuan3 - vernacular.
  • Wu

  • Rime
    Character
    Reading # 1/1
    Initial () (29)
    Final () (62)
    Tone (調) Level (Ø)
    Openness (開合) Closed
    Division () I
    Fanqie
    Baxter khwan
    Reconstructions
    Zhengzhang
    Shangfang
    /kʰuɑn/
    Pan
    Wuyun
    /kʰʷɑn/
    Shao
    Rongfen
    /kʰuɑn/
    Edwin
    Pulleyblank
    /kʰwan/
    Li
    Rong
    /kʰuɑn/
    Wang
    Li
    /kʰuɑn/
    Bernard
    Karlgren
    /kʰuɑn/
    Expected
    Mandarin
    Reflex
    kuān
    Expected
    Cantonese
    Reflex
    fun1
    BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
    Character
    Reading # 1/1
    Modern
    Beijing
    (Pinyin)
    kuān
    Middle
    Chinese
    ‹ khwan ›
    Old
    Chinese
    /*[k]ʷʰˁa[n]/
    English vast, wide

    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 # 1/1
    No. 5346
    Phonetic
    component
    Rime
    group
    Rime
    subdivision
    3
    Corresponding
    MC rime
    Old
    Chinese
    /*kʰoːn/

    DefinitionsEdit

    1. wide; broad
      馬路 [MSC, trad.]
      马路 [MSC, simp.]
      Zhè tiáo xīn xiū de mǎlù hěn kuān. [Pinyin]
      This newly constructed road is wide.
      Antonym: (zhǎi)
    2. width
      中國國旗 [MSC, trad.]
      中国国旗 [MSC, simp.]
      Zhōngguó guóqí de kuān shì cháng de sān fēn zhī èr. [Pinyin]
      The width of a Chinese flag is two-thirds its length.
      河面二十河面二十  ―  Hémiàn yǒu èrshí mǐ kuān.  ―  The river surface is 20 metres wide.
    3. generous; magnanimous; lenient
    4. to relax; to relieve
    5. comfortably off; well-off
    6. to take off
        ―  kuān  ―  to take off one's clothes
    7. (Min Nan) slow
      寬寬宽宽 [Hokkien]  ―  khoan-khoan [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  slowly
      寬寬宽宽 [Teochew]  ―  kuan1 kuan1 gian5 [Peng'im]  ―  walk slowly

    SynonymsEdit

    CompoundsEdit

    JapaneseEdit

    Shinjitai

    Kyūjitai

    KanjiEdit

    (“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for nameskyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form )

    1. tolerant; lenient; generous

    ReadingsEdit

    KoreanEdit

    HanjaEdit

    (eumhun 너그러울 (neogeureoul gwan))

    1. Hanja form? of (broad, wide, spacious).

    VietnameseEdit

    Han characterEdit

    : Hán Nôm readings: khoan, khoăn

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