广 · guǎng
wide, extensive, broad; rad. 53
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
wide, extensive, broad; rad. 53
- Mandarin
- guǎng
- Cantonese
- gwong2
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 广 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Korean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 엄
- KS X 1002 (1) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+5E7F
- Radical
- 广 · 53
- Strokes
- 3 · Unihan
- Residual
- 0
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
3 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 广
Character connections
History & distinctions
Related forms
廣
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- ngjemX · 魚檢 反切 · #2039
- Middle Chinese
- ngjaemX · 魚掩 反切 · #2062
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 12453 · ngjemX = 咸開三上鹽疑 · ngjaemX = 咸開三上嚴疑
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- guǎng
- kCantonese
- gwong2
- kDefinition
- wide, extensive, broad; rad. 53
- kTotalStrokes
- 3
- kRSUnicode
- 53.0
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+5E7F U+5EE3
- kSimplifiedVariant
- U+5E7F
- kTGH
- 2013:53
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- yǎn,ān,guǎng 20872.060
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- ān 0008.050 · guǎng 0415.050
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- guǎng 123.080
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- guǎng(628)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- yǎn粵jim5 ān粵am1
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 魚檢 魚掩
- Kangxi positions
- 0343.050
- Guangyun positions
- 334.12 336.16
- Cangjie
- XI
- Four-corner
- 0020.0