kuò

expand, enlarge

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and 广 represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
扌 sound component

  Sound component

shoushǒu

  

hand

is a component form of .

广 sound,meaning component

广  Sound Meaning component

yǎnguǎng

  

roof

Evolution

扩 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
扩 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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kuò

expand, enlarge, stretch; to enlarge

Most common words with 扩
Freq.
Word
Meaning

扩大

to expand

扩散

to spread

扩张

expansion

扩展

to extend

to enlarge

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*kʷʰˤak

khwak

kuò

widen


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 10.5558% of movies

2054th most common character in movies

1051st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Traditional

Unicode

U+6269


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