kuò
broad
Phonosemantic compound. 門 represents the meaning and 活 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[k]ʰˤot | khwat | kuò | 契闊 khet.khwat hard-working (Ode 31.4) |
*[k]ʷʰˤat | khwat | kuò | widely apart |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 4.8214% of movies
2461st most common character in movies
1675th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 17 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+95CA |
Shuowen | “闊，疏也。从門，聲。” |
Sources
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