广 guǎng, ān — wide; broad; vast; extensive
广
Traditional:
廣
guǎng guang3
Basic definition
Detailed explanation
noun
- (形声。从广( yǎn),黄声。从“广”,表示与房屋有关。按:“广”和“廣”本不同义:是两个字。“广”,本读 yǎn,甲骨文和金文的写法象屋墙屋顶,其含义是依山崖建造的房屋。现在“广”是“廣”的简化字。本义:宽大的房屋)
- wallless hall
- width e.g 广运
- Guangzhou (Canton) e.g 广交会 广疮 · 广里
- Guang dong (Kwangtung) or Guangxi(Kwangsi) e.g 两广 · 广花 · 广云胶
adjective
- wide;vast;extensive e.g 广通 · 广交声气 · 广平 · 广庄 · 广狭
- huge;great e.g 广厦细旃 · 广车 · 广舶 · 广肆 · 广衢 · 广眉 · 广渊
- grand e.g 广宴 · 广筵
- far-reaching e.g 君子贫穷而志广 · 才疏意广
- numerous e.g 广交 广众 · 广坐
- general
- rusty;be out of practice e.g 广广 · 广土
verb
- expand e.g 广额
- popularize e.g 广宣推广
ān an1
Basic definition
- noun a small temple; nunnery (used in names)
Detailed explanation
- noun hut
Other notes
依山崖建造的房屋。《説文•广部》
屋脊。《古今韻會舉要•琰韻》
Related words
- 广大 vast; extensive; widespread
- 广告 advertisement; to advertise
- 广泛 extensive; widespread; broad
- 广州 Guangzhou (capital of Guangdong Province, southern China)
- 广东 Guangdong (province in southern China)
- 推广 to popularize; to promote; to spread
- 广播 broadcast; radio; to broadcast; to air; transmission
- 广场 public square; plaza
- 广西 Guangxi (Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, southern China)
- 广阔 vast; wide; broad; extensive; expansive; spacious; immense; boundless; far-reach
- 广播电台 radio station
- 宽广 broad; wide; vast
- 广义 broad sense; generalized
- 广度 breadth
- 广场舞 square dance (group dancing in public squares)
- 广为 widely; extensively
- 广袤 vast expanse; breadth and length
- 广交 to make friends widely; to network broadly
- 广交会 the Canton Fair
- 集思广益 to pool ideas; to draw on collective wisdom