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匡

kuāng

Character

What 匡 means

1. literaryto rectify
2. literaryto assist
3. colloquialto calculate roughly; to estimate

Other readings

匡 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• Kuāngsurname Kuang

Words starting with 匡

• 匡正kuāng zhèngto correct; to amend; to redress (evils)
• 匡扶社稷kuāng fú shè jì(of states within the nation) to support the ruler in governing the country

Words containing 匡

• 倪匡Ní KuāngNi Kuang (1935–2022), Chinese novelist and screenwriter
• 徐匡迪Xú Kuāng díXu Kuangdi (1937-), PRC politician and former mayor of Shanghai
• 赵匡胤Zhào Kuāng yìnZhao Kuangyin, personal name of founding Song emperor Song Taizu 宋太祖 (927-976)

Characters built on 王

These share the phonetic component 王 (wáng), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 皇huángemperor; old variant of 惶
• 狂kuángmad; wild; violent
• 璜huángsemicircular jade ornament

Characters that look like 匡

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 因yīncause; reason; because
• 医yīmedical; medicine; doctor
• 园yuánland used for growing plants; site used for public recreation…
• 臣chénstate official or subject in dynastic China; I, your servant…
• 匠jiàngcraftsman
• 叵pǒnot; thereupon

Sounds the same

Read kuāng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 筐basket
• 哐(onomatopoeia) crash; bang; clang
• 诓to mislead; to swindle
• 恇to fear; apprehensive
• 劻zealous
• 洭ancient name of a river 洭河; (used in ancient place names)
• 軭to spoil (Cant.); to ruin; to warp (car wheel)