寬

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

Translingual

Traditional 寬
Shinjitai 寛
Simplified 宽

Alternative forms

  • 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 character

寬 (Kangxi 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 notes

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 characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 292, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7322
  • Dae Jaweon: page 578, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 947, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+5BEC

Chinese

trad. 寬
simp. 宽
alternative forms 寛

Glyph origin

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

See also 家.

Pronunciation


Note:
  • khoan - literary;
  • khoaⁿ - vernacular.
      • (Teochew)
        • Peng'im: kuang1 / kuêng1 / kuan1 / kuan3
        • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: khuang / khueng / khuaⁿ / khuàⁿ
        • Sinological IPA (key): /kʰuaŋ³³/, /kʰueŋ³³/, /kʰũã³³/, /kʰũã²¹³/
    Note:
    • kuang1/kuêng1 - literary (kuêng1 - Chaozhou);
    • kuan1 - vernacular ("slow", also written as 款);
    • kuan3 - vernacular.
      • Wu
        • (Shanghai):
          • Wugniu: 1khuoe
          • MiniDict: khuoe平
          • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): 1khuoe
          • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /kʰuø⁵³/

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
Baxter khwan
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
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
fun1
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/

Definitions

寬

  1. wide; broad
    這條新修的馬路很寬。 [MSC, trad.]
    这条新修的马路很宽。 [MSC, simp.]
    Zhè tiáo xīn xiū de mǎlù hěn kuān. [Pinyin]
    This newly constructed road is wide.
    Antonym: 窄
  2. width
    中國國旗的寬是長的三分之二。 [MSC, trad.]
    中国国旗的宽是长的三分之二。 [MSC, simp.]
    Zhōngguó guóqí de kuān shì cháng de sān fēn zhī èr. [Pinyin]
    The width of a Chinese flag is two-thirds its length.
    河面有二十米寬。 [MSC, trad.]
    河面有二十米宽。 [MSC, simp.]
    Hémiàn yǒu èrshí mǐ kuān. [Pinyin]
    The river surface is 20 metres wide.
  3. generous; magnanimous; lenient
  4. to relax; to relieve
  5. comfortably off; well-off
  6. to take off
    寬衣/宽衣  ―  kuānyī  ―  to take off one's clothes
  7. (Southern Min) slow
    寬寬仔/宽宽仔 [Hokkien]  ―  khoan-khoan-á [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  slowly
    寬寬行/宽宽行 [Teochew]  ―  kuan1 kuan1 gian5 [Peng'im]  ―  walk slowly

Synonyms

  • (wide):
  • (slow):

Antonyms

  • (antonym(s) of “wide”): 窄 (zhǎi)

Compounds

References

Japanese

Shinjitai

寛

Kyūjitai

寬

Kanji

寬

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

  1. tolerant; lenient; generous

Readings

Korean

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

Pronunciation

Hanja

Wikisource 寬 (eumhun 너그러울 관 (neogeureoul gwan))

  1. Hanja form? of 관 (“broad, wide, spacious”).

Vietnamese

Han character

寬: Hán Nôm readings: khoan, khoăn

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