Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 廣

Modern (Beijing) reading: guǎng

Preclassic Old Chinese: kʷāŋʔ

Classic Old Chinese: kwā́ŋ

Western Han Chinese: kwā́ŋ

Eastern Han Chinese: kwā́ŋ

Early Postclassic Chinese: kwā́ŋ

Middle Postclassic Chinese: kwā́ŋ

Late Postclassic Chinese: kwā́ŋ

Middle Chinese: kwấŋ

English meaning : be extensive, wide, broad, vast

Russian meaning[s]: 1) широкий, обширный; 2) сокр. пров. Гуандун; пров. Гуанси; г. Кантон; 3) Гуан (фамилия); [guàng] 1) ширина; в ширину; 2) с востока на запад; 3) расширять(ся)

Shuowen gloss: 殿之大屋也.從#.黃聲.

Comments: Viet. quãng is a colloquial loan (with a modified meaning: 'space, distance'); standard Sino-Viet. is qua`ng.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 53

Four-angle index: 8149

Karlgren code: 0707 h-k

Vietnamese reading: quãng

Shijing occurrences: 9.1_, 9.2_, 9.3_

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