Chinese Character Wiki

阔

kuò

broad

Phonosemantic compound. 门 represents the meaning and 活 represents the sound. Simplified form of 闊.

Components
门 meaning component

门  Meaning component

mén

  

door

活 sound component

活  Sound component

huó

  

live

Evolution

阔 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
阔 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
阔 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
阔 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
阔 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

阔 (闊) 

kuò

broad, ample, wide; be apart; rich; wide; broad

阔 (濶) 

kuò

variant of 闊|阔[kuò]

Most common words with 阔
Freq.
Word
Meaning

广阔

wide

开阔

wide

阔

rich

宽阔

wide

辽阔

vast

Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 4.8214% of movies

2461st most common character in movies

1675th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Traditional

闊

Unicode

U+9614


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