擴 - Dong Chinese dictionary

kuò

expand, enlarge

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 廣 represents the sound.

Components

扌 Meaning component

shou, shǒu

hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

廣 Sound Meaning component

guǎng

wide

擴 and 廣 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.擴 /*kʷʰˤak/
廣 /*kʷˤaŋʔ/, /*kʷˤaŋʔ-s/

Definitions

扩 (擴)

kuò

expand, enlarge, stretch; to enlarge

Most common words with 擴

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	扩大	to expand
	扩散	to spread
	扩张	expansion
	扩展	to extend
	扩	to enlarge

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*kʷʰˤak	khwak	kuò	widen

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 10.5558% of movies

2054th most common character in movies

1051st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	17
Simplified	扩
Unicode	U+64F4

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

漢語多功能字庫

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