擴

See also: 拡 and 扩

擴	U+64F4, 擴 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-64F4

← 擳
[U+64F3]

CJK Unified Ideographs

擵 →
[U+64F5]

Translingual

Traditional	擴
Shinjitai	拡
Simplified	扩

Han character

擴 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+15, 18 strokes, cangjie input 手戈廿金 (QITC), four-corner 5008₆, composition ⿰扌廣)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 461, character 4
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12895
Dae Jaweon: page 810, character 12
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1975, character 6
Unihan data for U+64F4

Chinese

trad.		擴
simp.		扩
alternative forms		挄

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (黃) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
僙	*kʷaːŋ
廣	*kʷaːŋʔ
鄺	kʷaːŋʔ, qʰʷaːŋ
懬	kʰʷaːŋʔ, kʰaːŋʔ
爌	kʰʷaːŋʔ, kʰʷaːŋs, *qʰʷaːŋʔ
曠	*kʰʷaːŋs
矌	*kʰʷaːŋs
壙	*kʰʷaːŋs
纊	*kʰʷaːŋs
黃	*ɡʷaːŋ
璜	*ɡʷaːŋ
潢	ɡʷaːŋ, ɡʷaːŋs
簧	*ɡʷaːŋ
癀	*ɡʷaːŋ
鱑	*ɡʷaːŋ
獚	*ɡʷaːŋ
蟥	*ɡʷaːŋ
趪	*ɡʷaːŋ
櫎	*ɡʷaːŋʔ
擴	ɡʷlaːŋs, kʰʷaːɡ
瀇	*qʷaːŋʔ
獷	kʷaŋʔ, kʷraːŋʔ
觵	*kʷraːŋ
礦	*kʷraːŋʔ
鑛	*kʷraːŋʔ
穬	*kʷraːŋʔ
橫	ɡʷraːŋ, ɡʷraːŋs, *kʷaːŋ
黌	*ɡʷraːŋ
鐄	*ɡʷraːŋ
嚝	*qʰʷraːŋ
彉	kʷaːɡ, qʰʷaːɡ
彍	kʷaːɡ, qʰʷaːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡʷlaːŋs, *kʰʷaːɡ): semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 廣 (OC *kʷaːŋʔ) – to stretch or enlarge with hands.

Etymology

Compared by Luce (1981) to Burmese ခင်း (hkang:, “to spread, roll out”), though there are phonetic problems, particularly with the final consonants.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): kuò (kuo⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄎㄨㄛˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): kwok³ / gwok³ / kwong³ / kong³
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): khok

(Meixian, Guangdong): kog⁵
Eastern Min (BUC): guóh
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): khok

(Teochew, Peng'im): kuag⁴ / kuang³
Wu (Northern, Wugniu): ⁷khueq / ⁷khoq

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: kuò
  - Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄛˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: kuò
  - Wade–Giles: kʻuo⁴
  - Yale: kwò
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kuoh
  - Palladius: ко (ko)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰu̯ɔ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: kwok³ / gwok³ / kwong³ / kong³
  - Yale: kwok / gwok / kwong / kong
  - Cantonese Pinyin: kwok⁸ / gwok⁸ / kwong³ / kong³
  - Guangdong Romanization: kuog³ / guog³ / kuong³ / kong³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷʰɔːk̚³/, /kʷɔːk̚³/, /kʷʰɔːŋ³³/, /kʰɔːŋ³³/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: khok
  - Hakka Romanization System: kog^ˋ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: kog⁵
  - Sinological IPA: /kʰok̚²/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: kog⁵
  - Sinological IPA: /kʰɔk̚¹/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: guóh
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kuɔʔ²⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Jinjiang, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khok
  - Tâi-lô: khok
  - Phofsit Daibuun: qog
  - IPA (Quanzhou, Jinjiang): /kʰɔk̚⁵/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /kʰɔk̚³²/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: kuag⁴ / kuang³
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: khuak / khuàng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰuak̚²/, /kʰuaŋ²¹³/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁷khueq
  - MiniDict: khueh^入
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁴khueq
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /kʰuəʔ⁵⁵/
- (Northern: Suzhou)
  - Wugniu: ⁷khoq
  - MiniDict: khoh^入
  - Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /kʰoʔ⁴³/

Middle Chinese: hwangH

Rime
Character	擴
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	唐 (102)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	乎曠切
Baxter	hwangH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦwɑŋ^H/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦʷɑŋ^H/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣuɑŋ^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦwaŋ^H/
Li Rong	/ɣuɑŋ^H/
Wang Li	/ɣuɑŋ^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ɣwɑŋ^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	huàng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wong⁶

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*kʷʰˤak/

(Zhengzhang): /*ɡʷlaːŋs/, /*kʰʷaːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	擴
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	kuò
Middle Chinese	‹ khwak ›
Old Chinese	/*kʷʰˁak/
English	widen
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	擴	擴
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	5390	5407
Phonetic component	黄	黄
Rime group	陽	鐸
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	攩
Old Chinese	/*ɡʷlaːŋs/	/*kʰʷaːɡ/
Notes	同攩	見孟子

Definitions

擴

to expand; to enlarge; to stretch
擴充／扩充 ― kuòchōng ― to enlarge

Compounds

彩擴 / 彩扩 (cǎikuò)
擴充 / 扩充 (kuòchōng)
擴充解釋 / 扩充解释
擴分 / 扩分
擴印 / 扩印 (kuòyìn)
擴及 / 扩及
擴增 / 扩增 (kuòzēng)
擴大 / 扩大 (kuòdà)
擴大機 / 扩大机
擴展 / 扩展 (kuòzhǎn)
擴建 / 扩建 (kuòjiàn)
擴張 / 扩张 (kuòzhāng)
擴張戰果 / 扩张战果
擴散 / 扩散 (kuòsàn)
擴散作用 / 扩散作用
擴權 / 扩权 (kuòquán)
擴編 / 扩编
擴胸器 / 扩胸器
擴軍 / 扩军 (kuòjūn)
擴音 / 扩音 (kuòyīn)
擴音器 / 扩音器 (kuòyīnqì)
沖擴 / 冲扩 (chōngkuò)
海底擴張 / 海底扩张

Japanese

Shinjitai	拡
Kyūjitai	擴

Kanji

擴

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 拡)

broaden

Readings

Go-on: かく (kaku)
Kan-on: かく (kaku)
Kun: ひろがる (hirogaru, 擴がる)、ひろげる (hirogeru, 擴げる)、ひろめる (hiromeru, 擴める)

Korean

Hanja

擴 • (hwak, gwang) (hangeul 확, 광, revised hwak, gwang, McCune–Reischauer hwak, kwang, Yale hwak, kwang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

擴: Hán Nôm readings: quẳng, huếch, khoác, khoách, khuếch

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