寬

• In Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japanese kanji, Korean hanja and Vietnamese Nôm, the component above 萈 is written with ⻀ (ram's horn component), which is the orthodox form found in the Kangxi dictionary.
• In mainland China (based on Xin Zixing, 新字形), the component above 萈 is written with 艹 (grass radical).

寬 (Kangxi radical 40, 宀+12 in traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean, 宀+11 in mainland China, 15 strokes in traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean, 14 strokes in mainland China, cangjie input 十廿月戈 (JTBI), four-corner 3021₆, composition ⿱宀萈 or ⿳宀艹⿷見丶(G) or ⿳宀⻀⿷見丶(HTJKV))

This character is not to be confused with 寛 (U+5BDB), a Japanese shinjitai character, which has one dot missing and is encoded as a separate character.

• 臗(𣎑), 鑧, 髖(髋), 𡂷, 𡒵, 𢸎, 𣟂, 𦆼, 𦒨, 𦪻, 𡬘, 𫣷

• 寛 (Japanese shinjitai, also a variant form)
• 宽 (Simplified Chinese)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 292, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7322
• Dae Jaweon: page 578, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 947, character 1
• Unihan data for U+5BEC

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kʰoːn) : semantic 宀 (“house”) + phonetic 萈 (OC *ɡoːn, “goat”)—a spacious house.

See also 家.

Note similarities to Burmese ခွင့် (hkwang., “permission, rights”).

寬

1. wide; broad

   這條新修的馬路很寬。 [MSC, trad.]
   这条新修的马路很宽。 [MSC, simp.]

   Zhè tiáo xīn xiū de mǎlù hěn kuān. [Pinyin]

   This newly constructed road is wide.

   Antonym: 窄

2. width

   中國國旗的寬是長的三分之二。 [MSC, trad.]
   中国国旗的宽是长的三分之二。 [MSC, simp.]

   Zhōngguó guóqí de kuān shì cháng de sān fēn zhī èr. [Pinyin]

   The width of a Chinese flag is two-thirds its length.

   河面有二十米寬。 [MSC, trad.]
   河面有二十米宽。 [MSC, simp.]

   Hémiàn yǒu èrshí mǐ kuān. [Pinyin]

   The river surface is 20 metres wide.

3. generous; magnanimous; lenient
4. to relax; to relieve
5. comfortably off; well-off
6. to take off

   寬衣／宽衣  ―  kuānyī  ―  to take off one's clothes

7. (Southern Min) slow

   寬寬仔／宽宽仔 [Hokkien]  ―  khoan-khoan-á [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  slowly

   寬寬行／宽宽行 [Teochew]  ―  kuan¹ kuan¹ gian⁵ [Peng'im]  ―  walk slowly

• (wide):

• (slow):

• (antonym(s) of “wide”): 窄 (zhǎi)

• “寬”, 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–

(Jinmeiyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 寛)

1. tolerant; lenient; generous

• On (unclassified): かん (kan)
• Kun: ひろい (hiroi, 寬い)、ゆるやか (yuruyaka, 寬やか)、くつろぐ (kutsurogu, 寬ぐ)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [kwa̠n]
• Phonetic hangul: [관]

 

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

寬

Wikisource

寬 (eumhun 너그러울 관 (neogeureoul gwan))

1. hanja form^? of 관 (“broad, wide, spacious”)

寬: Hán Nôm readings: khoan, khoăn

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