Chinese Character Wiki

曠

kuàng

extensive

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

Components
日 meaning component

日  Meaning component

rì

  

sun

廣 sound,meaning component

廣  Sound Meaning component

guǎng

  

wide

Evolution

曠 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
曠 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
曠 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

旷 (曠) 

kuàng

extensive, wide, broad; empty; to neglect; to skip (class or work); to waste (time); vast; loose-fitting

Most common words with 曠
Freq.
Word
Meaning

空旷

void

旷

to neglect

旷野

wilderness

旷课

to play truant

心旷神怡

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

旷

Unicode

U+66E0

Shuowen

“曠，明也。从日，廣聲。”


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