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寬

See also: 宽 and 寛
寬 U+5BEC, 寬
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5BEC
← 寫
[U+5BEB] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 寭 →
[U+5BED]

TranslingualEdit

Traditional 寬
Shinjitai 寛
Simplified 宽

Alternative formsEdit

  • In Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japanese kanji, Korean hanja and Vietnamese Nôm, the component above 萈 is written with ⻀ (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 萈 is written with 艹 (grass radical).

Han characterEdit

寬 (radical 40, 宀+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 ⿱宀萈 or ⿳宀艹⿷見丶(G) or ⿳宀⻀⿷見丶(HTJKV))

Usage notesEdit

This character is not to be confused with 寛 (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: volume 2, page 947, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+5BEC

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

Note:
  • khoan - literary;
  • khoaⁿ - vernacular.
Note:
  • kuang1/kuêng1 - literary (kuêng1 - Chaozhou);
  • kuan1 - vernacular ("slow", also written as 款).
  • Wu
    • 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
    Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
    Character 寬
    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 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
    5. (Min Nan) slow
      寬寬仔 / 宽宽仔 [Min Nan]  ―  khoan-khoan-á [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  slowly
      寬寬行 / 宽宽行 [Teochew]  ―  kuan1 kuan1 gian5 [Peng'im]  ―  walk slowly

    SynonymsEdit

    Dialectal synonyms of 寬 (“wide; broad”) [map]
    Variety Location Words
    Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 寬
    Mandarin Beijing 寬
    Cantonese Guangzhou 闊
    Hong Kong 闊

    CompoundsEdit

    Derived terms from 寬

    JapaneseEdit

    Shinjitai

    		寛

    Kyūjitai

    		寬

    KanjiEdit

    寬

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

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    ReadingsEdit

    KoreanEdit

    HanjaEdit

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

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    VietnameseEdit

    Han characterEdit

    寬 (khoan, khoăn)

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