Chinese Character Wiki

廓

kuò

broad

Components
广 meaning component

广  Meaning component

yǎn, guǎng

  

roof

wide

郭 sound component

郭  Sound component

guō

  

outer part (of a city)

Evolution

廓 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
廓 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

廓  

kuò

broad, wide, open, empty; to expand; big; empty; open

Most common words with 廓
Freq.
Word
Meaning

轮廓

an outline

廓

big

胸廓

thorax

廓清

to clear up

轮廓线

an outline

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*kʷʰˤak

khwak

kuò

widen


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.4416% of movies

3245th most common character in movies

2911th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+5ED3


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