# 纊

| 纊 | U+7E8A, &#32394; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7E8A |
| ← 纉 [U+7E89] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 纋 → [U+7E8B] |

## Translingual

| Traditional | 纊 |
| Shinjitai (extended) | 絋 |
| Simplified | 纩 |

### Han character

纊 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+15, 21 strokes, cangjie input 女火戈廿金 (VFITC), four-corner 2093$_2$, composition ⿰糹廣)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 942, character 36
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28033
* Dae Jaweon: page 1382, character 17
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3464, character 8
* Unihan data for U+7E8A

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 僙 | *kʷaːŋ |
| 廣 | *kʷaːŋʔ |
| 鄺 | *kʷaːŋʔ, *qʰʷaːŋ |
| 懬 | *kʰʷaːŋʔ, *kʰaːŋʔ |
| 爌 | *kʰʷaːŋʔ, *kʰʷaːŋs, *qʰʷaːŋʔ |
| 曠 | *kʰʷaːŋs |
| 矌 | *kʰʷaːŋs |
| 壙 | *kʰʷaːŋs |
| 纊 | *kʰʷaːŋs |
| 黃 | *ɡʷaːŋ |
| 璜 | *ɡʷaːŋ |
| 潢 | *ɡʷaːŋ, *ɡʷaːŋs |
| 簧 | *ɡʷaːŋ |
| 癀 | *ɡʷaːŋ |
| 鱑 | *ɡʷaːŋ |
| 獚 | *ɡʷaːŋ |
| 蟥 | *ɡʷaːŋ |
| 趪 | *ɡʷaːŋ |
| 櫎 | *ɡʷaːŋʔ |
| 擴 | *ɡʷlaːŋs, *kʰʷaːɡ |
| 瀇 | *qʷaːŋʔ |
| 獷 | *kʷaŋʔ, *kʷraːŋʔ |
| 觵 | *kʷraːŋ |
| 礦 | *kʷraːŋʔ |
| 鑛 | *kʷraːŋʔ |
| 穬 | *kʷraːŋʔ |
| 橫 | *ɡʷraːŋ, *ɡʷraːŋs, *kʷaːŋ |
| 黌 | *ɡʷraːŋ |
| 鐄 | *ɡʷraːŋ |
| 嚝 | *qʰʷraːŋ |
| 彉 | *kʷaːɡ, *qʰʷaːɡ |
| 彍 | *kʷaːɡ, *qʰʷaːɡ |

### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): kuàng (kuang$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄎㄨㄤˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): kwong$^3$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: kuàng
*** Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄤˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: kuàng
*** Wade–Giles: kʻuang$^4$
*** Yale: kwàng
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kuanq
*** Palladius: куан (kuan)
*** Sinological IPA : /kʰu̯ɑŋ⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: kwong$^3$
*** Yale: kwong
*** Cantonese Pinyin: kwong$^3$
*** Guangdong Romanization: kuong$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /kʷʰɔːŋ³³/
* Middle Chinese: khwangH
Rime :
| Character | 纊 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 溪 (29) |
| Final (韻) | 唐 (102) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 苦謗切 |
| Baxter | khwangH |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /kʰwɑŋ$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /kʰʷɑŋ$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /kʰuɑŋ$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /kʰwaŋ$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /kʰuɑŋ$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /kʰuɑŋ$^H$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /kʰwɑŋ$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | kuàng |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | fong$^3$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*kʷʰˤaŋ-s/
    (Zhengzhang): /*kʰʷaːŋs/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 纊 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | kuàng |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ khwang$^H$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*kʷʰˁaŋ-s/ |
| English | fine floss silk; quilted |
| Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary. ||
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 纊 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 5377 |
| Phonetic component | 黄 |
| Rime group | 陽 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 曠 |
| Old Chinese | /*kʰʷaːŋs/ |

#### Definitions

纊
* (literary) silk wadding; silk floss
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) silkworm cocoon
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) Alternative form of 曠 / 旷 (kuàng, “vast; broad”)
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) Classifier for eighty threads.

#### Compounds

* 屬纊 / 属纩
* 挾纊 / 挟纩
* 絺纊 / 𫄨纩
* 纊工 / 纩工
* 黈纊 / 黈纩

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* Cantonese (Jyutping): kwang$^3$
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: kwang$^3$
*** Yale: kwang
*** Cantonese Pinyin: kwang$^3$
*** Guangdong Romanization: kueng$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /kʷʰɐŋ³³/

#### Definitions

纊 (Cantonese)
* to bump against; to rub against
       ngo$^5$ go$^3$ hap$^{6-2}$ kwang$^3$ dou$^{3-2}$ bung$^6$ coeng$^4$. [Jyutping]
       My box bumped against the wall.
* to bolt (a door) hastily
* (figuratively) to compete
** 1996, 大內密探零零發 [Forbidden City Cop], 苑瓊丹 [Kingdom Yuen] (actor):
       kwang$^3$ me$^1$, jan$^4$ dei$^6$ liu$^1$ go$^3$ bei$^6$ si$^2$ dou$^1$ leng$^3$ gwo$^3$ nei$^5$ dim$^2$ kwang$^3$ aa$^3$? nei$^5$ loeng$^5$ go$^3$ faai$^3$ di$^1$ ce$^2$ laa$^1$! ju$^2$ mai$^6$ ngo$^5$ daai$^6$ baa$^1$ daai$^6$ baa$^1$ gam$^2$ sing$^1$ nei$^5$ gaa$^3$ bo$^3$. [Jyutping]
       (please add an English translation of this quotation)

### References

* “纊”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

## Japanese

| Shinjitai (extended) | 絋 |
| Kyūjitai | 纊 |

### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 絋)
* cotton
* silk

#### Readings

* Go-on: こう (kō)
* Kan-on: こう (kō)
* Kun: わた (wata, 纊)、わたいれ (wataire, 纊)
* Nanori: ひろ (hiro)

## Korean
### Hanja

纊 • (gwang) (hangeul 광, revised gwang, McCune–Reischauer kwang, Yale kwang)
* cotton
* padded clothes
* broad, wide (same as 曠)

## Vietnamese
### Han character

纊: Hán Nôm readings: khoáng
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