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

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• 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/

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• 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	/ɦwɑŋH/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦʷɑŋH/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣuɑŋH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦwaŋH/
Li Rong	/ɣuɑŋH/
Wang Li	/ɣuɑŋH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ɣwɑŋH/
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

1. 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
• 海底擴張 / 海底扩张

 

Japanese

Shinjitai	拡
Kyūjitai	擴

Kanji

擴

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 拡)

1. 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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