HSK 5 · Adjectives

宽 kuān “wide” in Chinese

Traditional 寬

What 宽 means

  1. wide
  2. broad
  3. loose
  4. relaxed
  5. lenient

How to say 宽

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale宽kuān1st tone, high and level

宽 in a sentence

  1. 有多宽？

    Yǒu duō kuān?

    How wide is it?

    Sentence #1877302 from Tatoeba

  2. 这条河是欧洲最宽的。

    Zhè tiáo hé shì Ōuzhōu zuì kuān de.

    This river is the widest in Europe.

    Sentence #795757 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 汤姆肩膀很宽。

    Tāngmǔ jiānbǎng hěn kuān.

    Tom has very broad shoulders.

    Sentence #10048873 from Tatoeba

How 宽 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.

How to write 宽

宽 10 strokes

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

Words related to 宽

Words with 宽

宽敞kuānchang · spacious宽容kuānróng · tolerant

More words: Adjectives

干燥gānzào · dry (weather高级gāojí · high level好客hàokè · hospitable滑huá · slippery夸张kuāzhāng · to exaggerate平安píng'ān · safe and sound软ruǎn · soft淘气táoqì · naughty

FAQs

宽 (kuān) means “wide” or “broad”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it kuān: kuān with a 1st 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 is written 寬. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type kuan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 宽 from the suggestions. Typing kuan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
宽 is an HSK 5 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.