寬

See also: 宽 and 寛
寬 U+5BEC, 寬
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5BEC
← 寫
[U+5BEB] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 寭 →
[U+5BED]

Translingual
Traditional 寬
Shinjitai 寛
Simplified 宽

Alternative forms
  • In Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japanese kanji, Korean hanja and Vietnamese Nôm, the component above 萈 is written with ⻀ (ram's horn component), which is the orthodox form found in the Kangxi dictionary.
  • In mainland China (based on Xin Zixing, 新字形), the component above 萈 is written with 艹 (grass radical).

Han character

寬 (radical 40, 宀+12 in traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean, 宀+11 in mainland China, 15 strokes in traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean, 14 strokes in mainland China, cangjie input 十廿月戈 (JTBI), four-corner 30216, composition ⿱宀萈 or ⿳宀艹⿷見丶(G) or ⿳宀⻀⿷見丶(HTJKV))

Usage notes

This character is not to be confused with 寛 (U+5BDB), a Japanese shinjitai character, which has one dot missing and is encoded as a separate character.

Derived characters
  • 𫣷, 𡂷, 𡒵, 𢸎, 臗(𣎑), 𣟂, 𦆼, 𦒨, 𦪻, 鑧, 髖(髋), 𡬘

References
  • KangXi: page 292, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7322
  • Dae Jaweon: page 578, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 947, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+5BEC

Chinese
trad. 寬
simp. 宽

Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (萈) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
寬 *kʰoːn
髖 *kʰoːn, *kʰuːn
萈 *ɡoːn
臗 *kʰuːn

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kʰoːn) : semantic 宀 (“house”) + phonetic 萈 (OC *ɡoːn, “goat”).

House is spacious. See also 家.

Pronunciation
Note:
  • khoan - literary;
  • khoaⁿ - vernacular.
Note:
  • kuang1/kuêng1 - literary (kuêng1 - Chaozhou);
  • kuan1 - vernacular ("slow", also written as 款).
Rime
Character 寬
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 桓 (62)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 苦官切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kʰuɑn/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kʰʷɑn/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kʰuɑn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kʰwan/
Li
Rong		 /kʰuɑn/
Wang
Li		 /kʰuɑn/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kʰuɑn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 kuān
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 寬
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 kuān
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ khwan ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[k]ʷʰˁa[n]/
English vast, wide

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 寬
Reading # 1/1
No. 5346
Phonetic
component		 萈
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 寬
Old
Chinese		 /*kʰoːn/

Definitions

寬

  1. wide; broad
  2. spacious; vast
  3. loose
  4. width
  5. (Min Nan) slow
    寬寬仔 / 宽宽仔 [Min Nan]  ―  khoan-khoan-á [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  slowly
    寬寬行 / 宽宽行 [Teochew]  ―  kuan1 kuan1 gian5 [Peng'im]  ―  walk slowly

Compounds
Derived terms from 寬

Japanese

Shinjitai

 寛

Kyūjitai

 寬

Kanji
寬

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 寛)

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Readings
  • On (unclassified): かん (kan)
  • Kun: ひろい (hiroi, 寬い); ゆるやか (yuruyaka, 寬やか); くつろぐ (kutsurogu, 寬ぐ)

Korean

Hanja

寬 • (gwan) (hangeul 관, McCune–Reischauer kwan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

寬 (khoan)

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