漢字Kanji · in Structures & Home
広: wide, broad
Also: spacious
广 carries the meaning · 厶 gives the sound
Oracle bone · Shang Bronze · Spring and Autumn Today
Oracle bone and bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Five readings, and the words that use each
コウkou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 広大なこうだいなvery large
- 広範囲こうはんいvast range
- 広告こうこくadvertisement
ひろいhiroi · kun'yomi · on its own
- 広いひろいspacious
- 広場ひろばplaza
- 広島ひろしまHiroshima
- 背広せびろbusiness suit
ひろまるhiromaru · kun'yomi
- 広まるひろまるspread [v.i.]
ひろがるhirogaru · kun'yomi
- 広がるひろがるspread [v.i.]
ひろげるhirogeru · kun'yomi
- 広げるひろげるspread [v.t.]
Also read ひろめる, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)广 (meaning) + 黃 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 廣 (rev. 89772615), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Build on the hillside! This radical represents practical buildings that provide shelter while leaning directly into the landscape.”
Connections
The 厶 family reads シ (shi); 広 is read コウ.
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by sideIn ChineseSimplified 广 · traditional 廣 · guǎng
Three different forms: Japanese 広, simplified 广, traditional 廣.
- Simplified
- 广 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 廣 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin guǎng most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.