The kanji 拡: meaning, readings and stroke order

拡

Meaning: enlarge, expand
On reading: カク kaku
Kun reading: —
Strokes: 8
Radical: 手 hand
Level: Level 6 · grade 6
Old form: 擴

Stroke order

Meaning in other languages

Vietnamese: mở rộng, phóng to (khuếch)
Japanese: ひろげる。おおきくする。
Korean: 넓히다, 크게 하다 (확)
Chinese: 扩大、放大 (扩)

Readings, words and example sentences

カク kaku · on reading

拡かく大だい
making bigger, zooming in
地図を 拡かく大だいして見ます。
I make the map bigger to look at it.

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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.