ChiramiN4 kanji · 5 strokes
広 means wide
广 a building · 厶 your own things
広Memory trick
A building (广) with room for all your things (厶): wide.
Memory trick: a picture to help you remember the kanji, not its history.
Meaning and readings
- Meanings
- wide, broad, spacious
- JLPT level
- N4
- Strokes
- 5
- School grade
- Grade 2 in Japan
Japanese (kunyomi) ひろい hiroi
ひろい (hiroi) is the Japanese word for this kanji. You use it when the kanji stands alone or has kana after it. Dictionaries call this the kun reading.
Other Japanese readings: ひろまる hiromaru, ひろめる hiromeru, ひろがる hirogaru
From Chinese (onyomi) コウ kou
コウ (kou) came from Chinese with the character. You mostly hear it in words made of several kanji. Dictionaries call this the on reading.
Tap a reading to see when it's used. Why kanji have two kinds of reading: onyomi vs kunyomi.
Common word
広げる ひろげる · hirogeru
to spread, to extend
Built from
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广 Used in 38 kanji
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What does 広 mean?
Right: 広 means wide.Not quite: 広 means wide.In 広げる, which reading does 広 use?
Right. 広げる is read ひろげる (hirogeru): 広 takes ひろ, its Japanese reading, with げる after it.Not quite. 広げる is read ひろげる (hirogeru): 広 takes ひろ, its Japanese reading, with げる after it.