wide; broad; numerous; vast; to spread; to extend
广 is the wide-open shelter shape: a square (广场), ads (广告), wide-ranging (广泛). Its older readings ān and yǎn are dictionary history.
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Taught as one written unit: the shelter-shape 广. Modern guǎng means wide — it is the simplification of 廣, whose sound side 黄 is not written here. Older dictionary uses (ān 'a hut', yǎn 'a shelter against a cliff') are kept as history, not everyday words.
wide; broad; numerous; vast; to spread; to extend
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wide; broad; numerous; vast; to spread; to extend
广 is the wide-open shelter shape: a square (广场), ads (广告), wide-ranging (广泛). Its older readings ān and yǎn are dictionary history.
Taught as one written unit: the shelter-shape 广. Modern guǎng means wide — it is the simplification of 廣, whose sound side 黄 is not written here. Older dictionary uses (ān 'a hut', yǎn 'a shelter against a cliff') are kept as history, not everyday words.
An old dictionary use of the shelter graph; not a modern common reading.
No common modern word is offered for this reading; the dictionary sense remains in Sources.
The old reading of 广 as a shelter built on a cliff; not a modern common reading.
No common modern word is offered for this reading; the dictionary sense remains in Sources.
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