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 (first edition): 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: kʻuo4
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kuoh
    • Tongyong Pinyin: kuò
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰwɔ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: kwok³, gwok³
    • Yale: kwok, gwok
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kwok⁸, gwok⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: kuog³, guog³
    • Sinological 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
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fok3

• 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. (literary) to expand; to widen
3. 46th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "enlargement" (𝌳)

Compounds

• 寥廓 (liáokuò)
• 廓土
• 廓填
• 廓廓
• 廓清 (kuòqīng)

• 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)‎^[1], 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(くるわ) • (kuruwa) 

1. Alternative spelling of 曲輪

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Korean

Etymology 1

From Middle Chinese 廓 (MC kʰwɑk̚).

Hanja

Wikisource

廓 (eumhun 둘레 곽 (dulle gwak))

1. Hanja form^? of 곽 (“girdle, circumference, outside, enclosure, wall”).

   Synonym: 郭 (곽 (gwak))

Compounds

Compounds

• 유곽 (遊廓, yugwak, “brothel; whorehouse”)
• 윤곽 (輪廓, yun-gwak, “outline; overview”)
• 외곽 (外郭/外廓, oegwak, “outskirt”)
• 흉곽 (胸廓, hyunggwak, “thorax”)
• 내곽 (內郭/內廓, naegwak, “interior”)
• 성곽 (城郭/城廓, seonggwak, “castle walls”)

Etymology 2

Hanja

廓 (eumhun 클 확 (keul hwak))

1. Hanja form^? of 확 (“wide; broad; large”).

   Synonym: 廣 (광 (gwang))

2. Hanja form^? of 확 (“to widen; broaden; enlarge”).

   Synonym: 擴 (확 (hwak))

Compounds

Compounds

• 확락 (廓落, hwangnak)
• 확청 (廓淸, hwakcheong)
• 확대 (廓大, hwakdae, “expansion”)
• 확연 (廓然, hwagyeon, “being large and empty”)

References

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [2]

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Vietnamese

Han character

廓: Hán Nôm readings: quách

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