寛

See also: 寬 and 宽
寛 U+5BDB, 寛
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5BDB
← 寚
[U+5BDA]
CJK Unified Ideographs 寜 →
[U+5BDC]

Translingual

Traditional 寬
Shinjitai 寛
Simplified 宽
Stroke order

Alternative forms

  • ⿳宀⻀見 - Contains ⻀ (ram's horn) instead of 艹 (grass radical) - See derived characters below.

Han character

寛 (Kangxi radical 40, 宀+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 十廿月山 (JTBU), four-corner 30212, composition ⿱宀莧)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: not present, would follow page 290, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7276
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 945, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+5BDB

Chinese

Glyph origin

Unorthodox form simplified from 寬 (kuān) (萈 (huán) → 莧 (xiàn)). Elimination of 丶 (zhǔ) stroke and alteration of ⻀ (ram's horn component) → 艹 (grass radical).

Originally found in the historical Longkan Shoujian (龍龕手鑑) dictionary (997 AD).

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 寛 – see 寬 (“wide; broad; width; etc.”).
(This character, 寛, is a variant form of 寬.)

Japanese

Shinjitai

寛

Kyūjitai

寬

Kanji

寛

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 寬)

  1. tolerant; lenient; generous

Readings

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
寛
かん
Grade: S
on’yomi
Alternative spelling
寬 (kyūjitai)

From Middle Chinese 寬 (MC kʰuɑn).

Pronunciation

Noun

寛(かん) • (kan) ←くわん (kwan)?

  1. leniency, gentleness

Adjective

寛(かん) • (kan) ←くわん (kwan)?-na (adnominal 寛(かん)な (kan na), adverbial 寛(かん)に (kan ni))

  1. lenient, gentle
Inflection

Proper noun

寛(ゆたか) • (Yutaka) 

  1. a male given name

Proper noun

寛(ひろし) • (Hiroshi) 

  1. a male given name

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

寛 • (gwan) (hangeul 관, revised gwan, McCune–Reischauer kwan)

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