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Kanji Detail for 廣 - "wide, spacious"

廣

  • Meaning

    廣 means "wide, spacious." Also associated with expand.

    1. Wide - Broad; extensive.

    2. Expand - To spread; to enlarge.

    3. Spacious - Having ample space.

  • Tattoo check: 廣

    • Verified meaning: wide, spacious
    • Jinmeiyō kanji — officially approved for use in Japanese given names
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read こう, さきひろ, ひろ, ひろかつ)
    • Also carries these associations: expand

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 廣

    Given names 廣(ひろし)Listen

    Surnames 廣(こう)Listen 廣(さきひろ)Listen 廣(ひろ)Listen 廣(ひろかつ)Listen 廣(ひろじ)Listen 廣(ひろすえ)Listen 廣(ひろせ)Listen 廣(ひろたか)Listen 廣(ひろつぐ)Listen 廣(ひろはま)Listen 廣(ゆたか)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    broad; wide; spacious

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    broad, wide, extensive

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    surname Guang

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    broad, vast, wide; building, house

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

    Great; broad. Opposite of narrow. | A place name. In the Three Kingdoms, Wu divided Jiaozhou to establish Guangzhou, which is today's Guangdong and Guangxi. Hence, the two provinces are abbreviated as 兩廣. | Horizontal extent. Such as 廣輪, 廣袤. East-west is 廣; north-south is 輪 or 袤.

  • Onyomi

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    koh(コウ) コウ

  • Kunyomi

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    hiro.garu(ひろ-がる) ひろ-がる

    hiro.geru(ひろ-げる) ひろ-げる

    hiro.i(ひろ-い) ひろ-い

    hiro.maru(ひろ-まる) ひろ-まる

    hiro.meru(ひろ-める) ひろ-める

  • Strokes

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    15 strokes

  • Radical

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    广 (madare)

  • Related Keywords

    wide expand spacious vast ample boundless broad capacious enlarge expansive extend extensive far-reaching great huge immense limitless open roomy spread sweeping

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