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曠

简旷 · 繁曠

Mandarin · pinyin kuàng

to neglect
to skip (class or work)
to waste (time)
vast
loose-fitting

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旷: kuàng · extensive, wide, broad; empty

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4 · kuang4

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

kong3 · kwong3

Cantonese word readings for 曠. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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(obsolete) bright; clear
broad; vast; extensive
free from worries and petty ideas
distant (in time)
loose-fitting
to neglect; to skip (class or work); to waste (time)
a surname

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