框框

Chinese

		frame; door frame	frame; door frame
simp. and trad. (框框)		框	框

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kuàngkuang, kuāngkuāng

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄨㄤˋ ˙ㄎㄨㄤ, ㄎㄨㄤ ㄎㄨㄤ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kwaang¹ kwaang¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kheng-kheng
• Wu (Suzhou, Wugniu): ¹khuaon-khuaon₁

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: kuàngkuang
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄤˋ ˙ㄎㄨㄤ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: kuàngkuång
    • Wade–Giles: kʻuang⁴-kʻuang⁵
    • Yale: kwàng-kwang
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kuanq.kuang
    • Palladius: куанкуан (kuankuan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰu̯ɑŋ⁵¹ kʰu̯ɑŋ¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: kuāngkuāng → kuāngkuang (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄤ ㄎㄨㄤ → ㄎㄨㄤ ˙ㄎㄨㄤ (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Tongyong Pinyin: kuangkuång
    • Wade–Giles: kʻuang¹-kʻuang⁵
    • Yale: kwāng-kwang
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kuang.kuang
    • Palladius: куанкуан (kuankuan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰu̯ɑŋ⁵⁵ kʰu̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/ → /kʰu̯ɑŋ⁵⁵ kʰu̯ɑŋ²/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: kwaang¹ kwaang¹
    • Yale: kwāang kwāang
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kwaang¹ kwaang¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: kuang¹ kuang¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷʰaːŋ⁵⁵ kʷʰaːŋ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kheng-kheng
    • Tâi-lô: khing-khing
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qengqefng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kʰiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻²² kʰiɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰiɪŋ³³ kʰiɪŋ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻²² kʰiɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kʰiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ kʰiɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ kʰiɪŋ⁴⁴/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Suzhou)
    • Wugniu: ¹khuaon-khuaon₁
    • MiniDict: khuaon^平 khuaon^平
    • Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /kʰuɑ̃⁴⁴ kʰuɑ̃/

Noun

框框

1. frame; framework
2. (figurative) convention; rules; restriction
3. (Suzhounese) The Chinese character component 囗.

Synonyms

• (convention): 框子 (kuàngzi)

Dialectal synonyms of 國字框 (“Chinese character component 囗”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		國字框
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	方框兒
	Xi'an	大口框兒
	Xining	四方框兒, 大口
	Xuzhou	方框兒, 大框兒
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	大口字, 方框
	Ürümqi	四方框兒, 大口
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	國字框
	Wuhan	方框框
	Guiyang	方框
	Liuzhou	四方框
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	國字框
Cantonese	Guangzhou	國字框, 四方框
	Dongguan	大口
Jin	Taiyuan	國字框, 大口
	Xinzhou	四方框框兒, 大口字
Northern Min	Jian'ou	國字皮
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	四角框
Southern Min	Xiamen	四角框
	Quanzhou	四角框
	Zhangzhou	四角框
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	四方口
Wu	Shanghai	方框檔, 大口
	Suzhou	方框當, 框框
	Danyang	方框框, 方框
	Wenzhou	方框
	Jinhua	四方塊, 方塊
Xiang	Changsha	四方框框
	Loudi	框公

Derived terms

• 條條框框／条条框框 (tiáotiáokuàngkuàng)