kuàng
extensive
A wide 廣 plain under the sun 日; 廣 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 曠
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
void | ||
to neglect | ||
wilderness | ||
to play truant | ||
lit. heart untroubled, spirit pleased (idiom); carefree and relaxed |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[k-m̥]ˤaŋ-s | khwangH | kuàng | desolate, waste |
*kʷʰˤaŋ-s | khwangH | kuàng | bright |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.1945% of movies
2975th most common character in movies
2735th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 18 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+66E0 |
Shuowen | “曠,明也。从日,廣聲。” |
Sources
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