擴

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: 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

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Chinese

trad.		擴
simp.		扩

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／广 (OC *kʷaːŋʔ) -- to stretch or enlarge with hands.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kuò (kuo⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄨㄛˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kwok³, gwok³, kwong³, kong³
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): khok

  (Meixian, Guangdong): kog⁵

• Min Dong (BUC): guóh
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): khok

  (Teochew, Peng'im): kuag⁴ / kuang³

• Wu (Wiktionary): khueq (T4)

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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): /kʰwɔ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • 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 Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: khok
    • Hakka Romanization System: kog`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: kog⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /kʰok̚²/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: kog⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /kʰɔk̚¹/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: guóh
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kuɔʔ²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (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
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: khueq (T4)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰɯə̯ʔ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɦwɑŋ^H/

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
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦwɑŋH/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦʷɑŋH/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣuɑŋH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦwaŋH/
Li Rong	/ɣuɑŋH/
Wang Li	/ɣuɑŋH/
Bernard 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

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Japanese

Shinjitai	拡
Kyūjitai	擴

Kanji

擴

(uncommon “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)

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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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