寬

寬 U+5BEC, 寬 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5BEC ← 寫 [U+5BEB] CJK Unified Ideographs 寭 → [U+5BED]

See also: 宽 and 寛

Contents

TranslingualEdit

Traditional	寬
Shinjitai	寛
Simplified	宽

Alternative formsEdit

Note that in Hong Kong and Taiwan, the component above 萈 is written with 卝 instead of 艹. Also note that the Japanese shinjitai character, which has one dot missing is encoded as a separate character, 寛 (U+5BDB).

Han characterEdit

寬 (radical 40 宀+12, 14 strokes, cangjie input 十廿月戈 (JTBI), four-corner 3021₆, composition ⿱宀萈(GJKV) or ⿳宀⻀⿷見丶(HT))

ReferencesEdit

• 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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ChineseEdit

trad.		寬
simp.		宽

Glyph originEdit

Characters in the same phonetic series (萈) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
寬	*kʰoːn
髖	*kʰoːn, *kʰuːn
萈	*ɡoːn
臗	*kʰuːn

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kʰoːn): semantic 宀 (“house”) + phonetic 萈 (OC *ɡoːn, “goat”).

House is spacious. See also 家.

PronunciationEdit

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kuān (kuan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄨㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fun¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): khôn
• Min Dong (BUC): kuăng
• Min Nan (POJ): khoan / khoaⁿ
• Wu (Wiktionary): khuoe (T1)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: kuān
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄢ
    • Wade-Giles: k'uan¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kuan
    • IPA ^(key): /kʰu̯a̠n⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: fun¹
    • Yale: fūn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fun¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: fun¹
    • IPA ^(key): /fuːn⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: khôn
    • Hakka Romanization System: kon´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: kon¹
    • IPA: /kʰon²⁴/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: kuăng
    • IPA ^(key): /kʰuaŋ⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khoan / khoaⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: khuan / khuann
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qoafn, qvoaf
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kʰuan⁴⁴/, /kʰuã⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰuan³³/, /kʰuã³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰuan⁴⁴/, /kʰuã⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kʰuan⁴⁴/, /kʰuã⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰuan⁴⁴/, /kʰuã⁴⁴/

Note:

• khoan - literary;
• khoaⁿ - vernacular.

• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: khuoe (T1)
    • IPA ^(key): /kʰv̩ʷø⁵³/

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• Middle Chinese: /kʰuɑn/▼

Rime
Character	寬
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	桓 (62)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	苦官切
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

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*[k]ʷʰˤa[n]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʰoːn/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	寬
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	kuān
Middle Chinese	‹ khwan ›
Old Chinese	/*[k]ʷʰˤa[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	寬
Reading #	1/1
No.	5346
Phonetic component	萈
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	寬
Old Chinese	/*kʰoːn/

DefinitionsEdit

寬

1. wide, broad
2. spacious, vast
3. loose
4. width

Derived termsEdit

• 寬帶／宽带 (kuāndài)

• 寬頻／宽频 (kuānpín)

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JapaneseEdit

Shinjitai	寛
Kyūjitai	寬

KanjiEdit

寬

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 寛)

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ReadingsEdit

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

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KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

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

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

寬 (khoan, khoăn)

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