HSK 6 · Adjectives

宽敞 kuānchang “spacious” in Chinese

Traditional 寬敞

What 宽敞 means

  1. spacious
  2. roomy
  3. wide

How to say 宽敞

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale宽kuān1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own敞changneutral tone, light and short

Grey pinyin is a neutral tone: say it short and light. More on the neutral tone

宽敞 in a sentence

  1. 我新家的客厅很宽敞。

    Wǒ xīn jiā de kètīng hěn kuānchang.

    The living room in my new home is very spacious.

    Sentence #336086 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 房间里的镜面墙营造出宽敞的错觉。

    Fángjiān lǐ de jìngmiànqiáng yíngzào chū kuānchang de cuòjué.

    The mirrored wall in the room creates an illusion of space.

    Sentence #13552113 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 宽敞 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 宽 (kuān) with each of its parts in a different colour
宽kuānwide
  • 宀roof · miánMeaning part
  • 苋amaranth · xiànSound part

宀 hints at the meaning (roof); 苋 (xiàn) hints at the sound. Compare it with kuān.

The character 敞 (chǎng) with each of its parts in a different colour
敞chǎngopen to the view of alllight in 宽敞
  • 尚still · shàngSound part
  • 攵tap form of 攴 · pūMeaning part

攵 hints at the meaning (tap); 尚 (shàng) hints at the sound. Compare it with chang.

How to write 宽敞

宽 10 strokes · 敞 12 strokes

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宽敞 (kuānchang) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 宽敞 (kuānchang). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 宽敞

Words with 宽

宽kuān · wide宽容kuānróng · tolerant

Words with 敞

敞开chǎngkāi · to open wide

More words: Adjectives

恳切kěnqiè · earnest可行kěxíng · feasible空洞kōngdòng · empty空前绝后kōngqiánjuéhòu · unprecedented and unrepeatable宽容kuānróng · tolerant枯燥kūzào · dull懒惰lǎnduò · lazy牢固láogù · firm

FAQs

宽敞 (kuānchang) means “spacious” or “roomy”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it kuānchang: kuān with a 1st tone, then chang with a neutral tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 宽敞 is written 寬敞. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type kuanchang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 宽敞 from the suggestions. Typing kuanchang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
宽敞 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.