寛

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

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 Dictionary: 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 (萈 → 莧). 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 is a variant form of 寬).

Japanese

Shinjitai

寛

Kyūjitai

寬

Kanji

寛

(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 khwan).

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
Inflection of 寛
Stem forms
Imperfective (未然形) 寛だろ かんだろ kan daro
Continuative (連用形) 寛で かんで kan de
Terminal (終止形) 寛だ かんだ kan da
Attributive (連体形) 寛な かんな kan na
Hypothetical (仮定形) 寛なら かんなら kan nara
Imperative (命令形) 寛であれ かんであれ kan de are
Key constructions
Informal negative 寛ではない
寛じゃない 		かんではない
かんじゃない 		kan de wa nai
kan ja nai
Informal past 寛だった かんだった kan datta
Informal negative past 寛ではなかった
寛じゃなかった 		かんではなかった
かんじゃなかった 		kan de wa nakatta
kan ja nakatta
Formal 寛です かんです kan desu
Formal negative 寛ではありません
寛じゃありません 		かんではありません
かんじゃありません 		kan de wa arimasen
kan ja arimasen
Formal past 寛でした かんでした kan deshita
Formal negative past 寛ではありませんでした
寛じゃありませんでした 		かんではありませんでした
かんじゃありませんでした 		kan de wa arimasen deshita
kan ja arimasen deshita
Conjunctive 寛で かんで kan de
Conditional 寛なら（ば） かんなら（ば） kan nara (ba)
Provisional 寛だったら かんだったら kan dattara
Volitional 寛だろう かんだろう kan darō
Adverbial 寛に かんに kan ni
Degree 寛さ かんさ kansa

Etymology 2

Proper noun

寛(ゆたか) • (Yutaka) 

  1. a male given name

Etymology 3

Proper noun

寛(ひろし) • (Hiroshi) 

  1. a male given name

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

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

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