Meaning & readings
broaden, extend, expand, enlarge
Origin
This character combines a hand-related component on the left (扌), which signals that the action involves using your hands, with a sound hint on the right (広) that tells you roughly how to pronounce it. The hand component gives the action category — something done with hands — while 広 provides the phonetic clue. Together they build the idea of using your hands to spread or stretch something outward, capturing the sense of broadening or enlarging with a physical motion.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint).
Components
- 扌
- 広
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 8
- Kangxi radical
- 64
- Grade
- Grade 6 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #611 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 2
- Unicode
- U+062E1