Chinese Character Wiki

獷

guǎng

fierce

Phonosemantic compound. 犭 represents the meaning and 廣 represents the sound.

Components
犭 meaning component

犭  Meaning component

quǎn

  

dog

犭 is a component form of 犬.

廣 sound component

廣  Sound component

guǎng

  

wide

Evolution

獷 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
獷 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

犷 (獷) 

guǎng

fierce, rude, uncivilized; rough; uncouth; boorish

Most common words with 獷
Freq.
Word
Meaning

粗犷

rough

犷

rough

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4624th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

犷

Unicode

U+7377

Shuowen

“獷，犬獷獷不可附也。从犬，廣聲。漁陽有獷平縣。”


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