Chinese Character 扩 Meanings and components.

Form

扩

Meaning

扩 meaning[3] in English

To Enlarge.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 扩 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are 'hand' radical in … (扌) , and 'house on a … (广)

Its radical[1] is: 手 (shou3) which means: Hand, (Formal) To Hold, Person Engaged In Certain Types Of Work, Person Skilled In Certain Types Of Work, Personal(Ly), Convenient, Classifier For Skill, Cl:雙|双[Shuang1],隻|只[Zhi1], .手shou3hand

In cangjie it is written with QI

How to write 扩

To write扩kuo4to enlarge you should write a combination of 扌shou5'hand' radical … , 广guang3'house on … arranged in a 吅 shape:

扌 + 广 = 扩

扩 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 扩 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of 扩, looks as follow:

扩
Pinyin:kuo4 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: To Enlarge
扌
Pinyin:shou5
Meaning[3]: 'Hand' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 64), Occurring In 提, 把, 打 Etc
广
Pinyin:guang3
Meaning[3]: 'House On A Cliff' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 53), Occurring In 店, 序, 底 Etc

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: 部bùsection 首shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: 汉hànChinese 字zìCharacter

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