The Radical: 广


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Meaning
building    广

Explanation At the explanation this radical is understood as building. The Hanzi itself (guǎng) means: extensive, wide, numerous or to spread

Used in these Kanji:
JLPT HSK 1
shop, store, inn
diàn
Top: building 广, below: fortune telling (crack in the shell of a turtle, from which the furtune was told. HERE: a key with the teeth and the handle )
The building that is locked with a key is: a shop.
广
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JLPT HSK 2
bed, couch
chuáng
Top: building 广, below: tree
It is in the building and wooden: The bed.
广
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JLPT HSK 3
should, ought to, to deal with, to answer, to respond
yīng, yìng
Left: Building 广, below: compressed variation of standing
In the building to be able to stand? That's what you should!
广
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JLPT HSK 3
healthy, peaceful, abundant
kāng
Left/top: building 广, below: a hand with a spoon stirs a liquid
In a building a hand stirs a soup that is healthy.
广
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JLPT HSK 3
pants, trousers, drawers

Left: clothes 衤/, right: warehouse (If there is a vehicle / in a building 广, then in the warehouse.)
Clothes for the warehouse are the pants.
广
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JLPT HSK 4
seat, base, stand, classifier for buildings, mountains
zuò
From top: building 广, to sit (Two persons sit on the earth/ground )
In the building you sit on your seat/place.
广
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JLPT HSK 4
sequence, order, preface

From top: building 广, to give, bestow (The bent person has a nail to give.)
In the building it is given the correct sequence.
广
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JLPT HSK 4
bottom, base, background
de, dǐ
Outside: building 广, below: floor, foundation 氐 (The family sits down on the floor.)
In the house, the family sits on the bottom.
广
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JLPT HSK 4
hemp or flax fiber, numb

Left: builing 广, below: forest
In the building is (protected) a whole forest of hemp.
广
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JLPT HSK 4
degree, measure, x-times, extent

Outside: building 广, below: various objects 廿 (means actually: twenty), hand
In the house is an object with which the hand measures x-times the degrees.
广 廿
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JLPT HSK 4
ore, mine
kuàng
Left: stone (At the cliff is a stone ), right: building 广 (here: company with a small chimney )
Stones are processed in this company: an ore mine.
广
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JLPT HSK 4
sugar, sweets, candy
táng
Left: rice , right: Tang dynasty (In the building 广 the hand with pestle and mortar during Tang)
You use rice in a building to squeeze it with a pestle in a hand and a mortar to get: sugar.
广
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广
JLPT HSK 4
extensive, wide, numerous, to spread
guǎng
A small person in distance on a cliff (actually: factory, production site) [The radical is explained as 'building']
With that small person, the cliff appears very extensive.
广
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JLPT HSK 5
celebrate, congratulate, festival
qìng
Outside: building 广, inside: big
When you make the building 'big', you want to celebrate.
广
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JLPT HSK 5
banquet, woven mat, seat (in an assembly, theater)

Outside: building 广, below: var. objects 廿, cloth
In the building, they use things of cloth: as seats.
广 廿
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JLPT HSK 5
to abolish, to abandon, discard, waste
fèi
Left: building 广, right: to send out (The mountain was drawn by the hand untidy, but (the letter) needs to be sent out.)
If the builing is 'sent out' it is abolished.
广
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JLPT HSK 5
main hall, court, courtyard
tíng
Left: building 广, below: judicial court (The movement of the scholar with a hat [=judge] to the court.)
The building of the court is its main hall.
广
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JLPT HSK 5
rotten, decay, corrosion, fermented

Top: seat of government (The building 广 in which it is handed over [to person with skillful hands ], is the seat of the government.), below: meat, bodypart
In the government is 'seated' meat that is rotten.
广
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JLPT HSK 5
seat of government, official residence, presidential palace

Left: building 广, below: hand over/pay (A person with a skillful hand handing over sth.)
The building in which it is handed over, is the seat of the government.
广
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JLPT HSK 5
enlarge (foto), extend, magnify, expand
kuò
Left: hand , right: building 广
Put your hand on the building to enlarge it.
广
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JLPT HSK 5
warehouse, storehouse, reservoir, arsenal

Outside: building 广, inside: vehicle (= cart with axle load-area wheels )
The building for vehicles is the warehouse.
广
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JLPT HSK 5
dyke, embankment, pool or pond, hot-water bathing pool
táng
Left: earth , right: Tang dynasty (In the building 广 the hand with pestle and mortar during Tang)
If by earth a "building" is made by hand as a surrounding mouth, it is a: dyke (embarkment) for a pond.
广
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JLPT HSK 6
cheaply-priced, inexpensive, incorruptible, honest
lián
Outside: building 广, below: twice, combine (A hand /ヨ holds two rice plants combined.)
(Terraced/rowed housing:) Buildings that are combined are cheaply-priced.
广
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JLPT HSK 6
huge, enormous, tremendous
páng
Outside: building 广, inside: dragon (The outstanding person has a broken leg with a winding dragon )
A building like a dragon: such huge.
广
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JLPT HSK 6
temple, ancestral shrine, temple fair
miào
Left: building 广, right: reason (The seedling/sprout in the field has its reason.)
The building where you go to with a real reason is: the temple.
广
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JLPT HSK 6
to wind around, spool, coil, to involve
chán
Left: thread 纟/, right: building 广, village (here: spool in a bearing )
Threads can be wound (within the building) onto a spool.
广
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JLPT HSK 6
corridor, veranda, porch
láng
Outside: building 广, bottom: a youth (.. the good one from the village)
In the building is a youth in the corridor.
广
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JLPT HSK 6
to conceal, to cover up (a shortcoming), to screen off
zhē
Left: movement , right: commonly, ordinary (A building 广 with various objects 廿 is in fire which commonly can happen.)
(In a magic trick you make inconspicuous movements) With an ordinary movement you can conceal/hide something.
广 廿
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JLPT HSK 6
ordinary, to use (often negative)
yōng
Outside: building 广, below: hand , holding a pestle , combined with use
When in a building a hand uses a pestle, it is very ordinary.
广
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JLPT HSK 6
farmstead, manor, village
zhuāng
Left: building 广, below: earth
The building next to earth is: a farmstead.
广
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JLPT HSK 6
to exaggerate, empty, in vain, Tang-Dynasty
táng
Outside: building 广, below: hand 肀, with pestle , mortar
Buildings in which a hand uses a mortar were exaggerated in Tang China???
广
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JLPT HSK 6
vast, neglect, desert, waste, wilderness
kuàng
Left: sun , right: (empty) building 广
When the sun shines into an empty building, it appears as vast wilderness.
广
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JLPT HSK 6
to protect, cover, shelter, hide or harbor

Left: building 广, right: compare (two sitting persons )
Buildings are comparatively (suitable) for protecting.
广
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JLPT HSK 6
big, wide, outline
kuò
Left: building 广, right: city wall (Enjoyable for a village is its city wall.) [to enjoy= = the tall child enjoys.]
A building like a city-wall, is: big & wide.
广
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JLPT no HSK
eagle, falcon, hawk
yīng
Left: building 广, right: person , bird , bird
Above the building and (big as) a person is the bird that kills other birds: the eagle.
广
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JLPT no HSK
surname Liao
liào
Left: building 广, right: sound of the wind (At feather or the beard you feel the wind.) [ = person with beard ]
In the building which rustles lives familie Liào.
广
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JLPT no HSK
hut, cottage

Left: building 广, right: sliding door 戸
A building with only a sliding door is: a small hut.
广
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JLPT no HSK
common people (or populace), numerous
shù
From top: building 广, various objects 廿, fire
A building with various objects on the fire, just like ordinary/common people do.
广 廿
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JLPT no HSK
hut, small temple, nunnery
ān
Outside: building 广, below: suddenly (the big electricity comes suddenly.) [electricity = field with lightning rod ]
A building that (can be built) suddenly, is a small hut.
广
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JLPT no HSK
age, 7th of the 10 Heavenly Stems 十天干
gēng
Left: building 广, right: hand , person
In the building, a hand grasps a person with the question of: his age.
广
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JLPT no HSK
persist, continue (as a song)
gēng
Top: age, 7th Heavenly Stems (In the building 广 a hand grasps a person with the question of: his age), bottom: money /貝
If there are in the building three working (=they have hands) people with money, they can stay/persist (=continue)
广
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JLPT no HSK
sickle, scythe
lián
Left: metal 钅/, right: cheaply-priced (here: image of a sickle 广, combine [A hand holding two rice plants ])
Made of metal is the sickle 广, which cuts combined (plant's bundles): The sickle.
广
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