闊

See also: 阔
闊 U+95CA, 闊
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-95CA
← 闉
[U+95C9]
CJK Unified Ideographs 闋 →
[U+95CB]

Translingual

Han character

闊 (Kangxi radical 169, 門+9, 17 strokes, cangjie input 日弓水竹口 (ANEHR), four-corner 77164, composition ⿵門活)

Derived characters

  • 𤄃

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1338, character 30
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41429
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1844, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4310, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+95CA

Chinese

trad. 闊
simp. 阔
2nd round simp. ⿵门舌
alternative forms 濶
𨶖
䦢
𨴿

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲/形声, OC *kʰoːd) : semantic 門 (“gate; door”) + phonetic 活 (OC *koːd, *ɡoːd)

Pronunciation


Note:
  • khoat - literary;
  • khoah - vernacular (“broad; big”).

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 闊
Mandarin Beijing /kʰuo⁵¹/
Harbin /kʰuo⁵³/
Tianjin /kʰuo⁵³/
Jinan /kʰuə²¹³/
Qingdao /kʰuə⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /kʰuo²⁴/
Xi'an /kʰuo²¹/
Xining /kʰu⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /kʰuə¹³/
Lanzhou /kʰuə¹³/
Ürümqi /kʰuɤ²¹³/
Wuhan /kʰuo²¹³/
Chengdu /kʰue³¹/
Guiyang /kʰuɛ²¹/
Kunming /kʰo³¹/
Nanjing /kʰueʔ⁵/
Hefei /kʰuɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /kʰuaʔ²/
Pingyao /kʰuʌʔ¹³/
Hohhot /kʰuaʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /kʰuəʔ⁵/
Suzhou /kʰuəʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /kʰuoʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /kʰo²¹³/
Hui Shexian /kʰuaʔ²¹/
Tunxi /kʰuːə⁵/
Xiang Changsha /kʰo²⁴/
Xiangtan /kʰo²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /kʰuɵʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /fat̚¹/
Taoyuan /fɑt̚²²/
Cantonese Guangzhou /fut̚³/
Nanning /fut̚³³/
Hong Kong /fut̚³/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /kʰuat̚³²/
/kʰuaʔ³²/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /kʰuɑʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /kʰuɛ²⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /kʰuaʔ²/
Haikou (Hainanese) /xua⁵⁵/

Rime
Character 闊
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 末 (64)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 苦栝切
Baxter khwat
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kʰuɑt̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/kʰʷɑt̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/kʰuɑt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kʰwat̚/
Li
Rong
/kʰuɑt̚/
Wang
Li
/kʰuɑt̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kʰuɑt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
kuo
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
fut3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 闊 闊
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
kuò kuò
Middle
Chinese
‹ khwat › ‹ khwat ›
Old
Chinese
/*[k]ʰˁot/ /*[k]ʷʰˁat/
English 契闊 khet.khwat hard-working (Ode 31.4) widely apart

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 闊
Reading # 1/1
No. 7584
Phonetic
component
桰
Rime
group
月
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kʰoːd/

Definitions

闊

  1. broad; wide
    闊步/阔步  ―  kuòbù  ―  to take big strides
    廣闊/广阔  ―  guǎngkuò  ―  vast and wide
  2. rich; wealthy
    闊綽/阔绰  ―  kuòchuò  ―  extravagant; ostentatious
  3. empty; impractical
    迂闊/迂阔  ―  yūkuò  ―  high-sounding and impractical
  4. (Hokkien) big (of someone's mouth)

Synonyms

  • (broad):
  • (rich):

Antonyms

  • (antonym(s) of “broad”): 窄 (zhǎi)

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

闊

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

闊 • (hwal) (hangeul 활, revised hwal, McCune–Reischauer hwal, Yale hwal)

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Vietnamese

Han character

闊: Hán Nôm readings: khoát, khoắt

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