Kanji Detail for 廓 - "enclosure, wide, expand, empty, quarter"

廓

Non-Jōyō Kanji

Meaning
廓 means "enclosure, wide, expand, empty, quarter."
1. Enclosure - A fortress; a compound.
2. Wide - Large; great.
3. Expand - To broaden.
4. Empty - Spacious; vacant.
5. Quarter - A pleasure district.
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

enclosure; quarter; red-light district

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

broad, wide, open, empty; to expand

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

(bound form) extensive; vast; (bound form) outline; general shape; (bound form) to expand; to extend

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

broad, wide; open; empty; outline

XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

Empty and vast. Such as 度量恢廓, meaning broad capacity to accommodate. Doing things carelessly is 廓落, like saying loosely. Hence, not fitting in with the world is also 廓落. | To expand. The meaning of enlarging from small. Such as 廓充.
Onyomi

kaku(かく)
Kunyomi

kuruwa(くるわ)

toride(とりで)
Strokes

14 strokes
Radical

广 (madare)
Related Keywords
enclosure fortress wide large great expand broaden empty spacious vacant quarter pleasure district