曠

See also: 旷 and 昿

Translingual

Traditional	曠
Shinjitai (extended)	昿
Simplified	旷

Han character

曠 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+15, 19 strokes, cangjie input 日戈廿金 (AITC), four-corner 6008₆, composition ⿰日廣)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 501, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14245
• Dae Jaweon: page 871, character 33
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1539, character 17
• Unihan data for U+66E0

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Chinese

trad.		曠
simp.		旷
alternative forms		昿 calligraphic variant

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (黃) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
僙	*kʷaːŋ
廣	*kʷaːŋʔ
鄺	*kʷaːŋʔ, *qʰʷaːŋ
懬	*kʰʷaːŋʔ, *kʰaːŋʔ
爌	*kʰʷaːŋʔ, *kʰʷaːŋs, *qʰʷaːŋʔ
曠	*kʰʷaːŋs
矌	*kʰʷaːŋs
壙	*kʰʷaːŋs
纊	*kʰʷaːŋs
黃	*ɡʷaːŋ
璜	*ɡʷaːŋ
潢	*ɡʷaːŋ, *ɡʷaːŋs
簧	*ɡʷaːŋ
癀	*ɡʷaːŋ
鱑	*ɡʷaːŋ
獚	*ɡʷaːŋ
蟥	*ɡʷaːŋ
趪	*ɡʷaːŋ
櫎	*ɡʷaːŋʔ
擴	*ɡʷlaːŋs, *kʰʷaːɡ
瀇	*qʷaːŋʔ
獷	*kʷaŋʔ, *kʷraːŋʔ
觵	*kʷraːŋ
礦	*kʷraːŋʔ
鑛	*kʷraːŋʔ
穬	*kʷraːŋʔ
橫	*ɡʷraːŋ, *ɡʷraːŋs, *kʷaːŋ
黌	*ɡʷraːŋ
鐄	*ɡʷraːŋ
嚝	*qʰʷraːŋ
彉	*kʷaːɡ, *qʰʷaːɡ
彍	*kʷaːɡ, *qʰʷaːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kʰʷaːŋs) : semantic 日 (“sun”) + phonetic 廣 (OC *kʷaːŋʔ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kuàng (kuang⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄨㄤˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kwong³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): khòng / khǹg

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: kuàng
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄤˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: kuàng
    • Wade–Giles: kʻuang⁴
    • Yale: kwàng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kuanq
    • Palladius: куан (kuan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰu̯ɑŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: kwong³
    • Yale: kwong
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kwong³
    • Guangdong Romanization: kuong³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷʰɔːŋ³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khòng
    • Tâi-lô: khòng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qoxng
    • IPA (Taipei): /kʰɔŋ¹¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰɔŋ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung): /kʰɔŋ²¹/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khǹg
    • Tâi-lô: khǹg
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qngx
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰŋ̍²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kʰŋ̍¹¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰŋ̍⁴¹/

Note:

• khòng - literary;
• khǹg - vernacular.

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• Middle Chinese: khwangH

Rime
Character	曠
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	唐 (102)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	苦謗切
Baxter	khwangH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰwɑŋH/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰʷɑŋH/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰuɑŋH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰwaŋH/
Li Rong	/kʰuɑŋH/
Wang Li	/kʰuɑŋH/
Bernard Karlgren	/kʰwɑŋH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	kuàng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fong3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[k-m̥]ˤaŋ-s/, /*kʷʰˤaŋ-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʰʷaːŋs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	曠	曠
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	kuàng	kuàng
Middle Chinese	‹ khwangH ›	‹ khwangH ›
Old Chinese	/*[k-m̥]ˁaŋ-s/	/*kʷʰˁaŋ-s/
English	desolate, waste	bright
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	曠
Reading #	1/1
No.	5373
Phonetic component	黄
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	曠
Old Chinese	/*kʰʷaːŋs/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 曠

1. to neglect; to skip (class or work); to waste (time)
2. broad; vast; extensive
3. void; empty
4. a surname

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Japanese

Shinjitai	昿
Kyūjitai	曠

Kanji

曠

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 昿)

1. wide open space, void
2. worthless

Readings

• Go-on: こう (kō)^{←くわう (kwau, historical)}
• Kan-on: こう (kō)^{←くわう (kwau, historical)}
• Kun: あら (ara, 曠); あきらか (akiraka, 曠らか); むなしい (munashii, 曠しい); ひろい (hiroi, 曠い)

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Korean

Hanja

曠 • (gwang) (hangeul 광, revised gwang, McCune–Reischauer kwang, Yale kwang)

1. extensive, wide, broad
2. empty

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 曠 (khoảng, khoáng, quãng, thoáng)

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