廓

廓 U+5ED3, 廓 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5ED3 ← 廒 [U+5ED2] CJK Unified Ideographs 廔 → [U+5ED4]

廓 U+FA0B, 廓 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA0B ← 見 [U+FA0A] CJK Compatibility Ideographs 兀 → [U+FA0C]

Translingual

Han character

廓 (radical 53, 广+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 戈卜木中 (IYDL), four-corner 0022₇, composition ⿸广郭)

References

• KangXi: page 350, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9461
• Dae Jaweon: page 661, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 895, character 13
• Unihan data for U+5ED3

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		廓

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (郭) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
郭	*kʷaːɡ
埻	*tjunʔ, *kʷaːɡ, *kʷreːɡ
崞	*kʷaːɡ
椁	*kʷaːɡ
槨	*kʷaːɡ
噋	*tʰuːn, *kʰʷaːɡ
廓	*kʰʷaːɡ
鞹	*kʰʷaːɡ
漷	*kʰʷaːɡ, *qʰʷraːɡ
霩	*qʰʷaːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kʰʷaːɡ): semantic 广 (“broad; wide; extensive”) + phonetic 郭 (OC *kʷaːɡ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kuò (kuo⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄨㄛˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kwok³, gwok³
• Min Nan (POJ): khok / koh

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: kuò
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄛˋ
    • Wade–Giles: k'o⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kuoh
    • IPA ^(key): /kʰu̯ɔ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: kwok³, gwok³
    • Yale: kwok, gwok
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kwok⁸, gwok⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: kuog³, guog³
    • IPA ^(key): /kʷʰɔːk̚³/, /kʷɔːk̚³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khok
    • Tâi-lô: khok
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qog
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰɔk̚⁵/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /kʰɔk̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: koh
    • Tâi-lô: koh
    • Phofsit Daibuun: koiq
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /koʔ³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /koʔ⁵/

Note:

• khok - literary;
• koh - vernacular.

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• Middle Chinese: /kʰwɑk̚/▼

Rime
Character	廓
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	鐸 (104)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	苦郭切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰwɑk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰʷɑk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰuɑk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰwak̚/
Li Rong	/kʰuɑk̚/
Wang Li	/kʰuɑk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/kʰwɑk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	kuo

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*kʷʰˤak/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʰʷaːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	廓
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	kuò
Middle Chinese	‹ khwak ›
Old Chinese	/*kʷʰˁak/
English	widen
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	廓
Reading #	1/1
No.	4758
Phonetic component	郭
Rime group	鐸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	廓
Old Chinese	/*kʰʷaːɡ/

Definitions

廓

1. broad, wide, open, empty
2. to expand
3. 46th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "enlargement" (𝌳)

Compounds

• 寥廓 (liáokuò)
• 廓土
• 廓填
• 廓廓
• 廓清

• 廓爾喀人／廓尔喀人
• 廓落
• 恢廓
• 恢廓大度
• 摧陷廓清

• 空廓 (kōngkuò)
• 膚廓／肤廓
• 輪廓／轮廓 (lúnkuò)
• 雙鉤廓填／双钩廓填

References

• “廓”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database), 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

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Japanese

Kanji

廓

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: かく (kaku)
• Kan-on: かく (kaku)
• Kun: とりで (toride); くるわ (kuruwa, 廓)

Compounds

• 外廓
• 廓大
• 輪廓

Etymology

Kanji in this term
廓
くるわ Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

Noun

廓 (hiragana くるわ, rōmaji kuruwa)

1. Alternative spelling of 曲輪

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Korean

Hanja

廓 • (gwak, hwak) (hangeul 곽, 확, revised gwak, hwak, McCune–Reischauer kwak, hwak)

1. (곽): girdle, circumference, outside, enclosure, wall
2. (확): wide, broad, large
3. (확): to widen, broaden, enlarge

Synonyms

• (girdle): 郭 (곽, gwak)
• (wide): 廣 (광, gwang)
• (widen): 擴 (확, hwak)

Compounds

• 遊廓 (유곽, yu-gwak): brothel, whorehouse
• 輪廓 (윤곽, yun-gwak): outline, overview

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Vietnamese

Han character

廓 (quách)

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