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框

kuàng

HSK 6 Character

What 框 means

1. frame (e.g. door frame)
2. casing
3. fig. framework
4. template
5. to circle (i.e. draw a circle around sth)
6. to frame
7. to restrict
8. Taiwan pr. kuāng

Example sentences

• 画框比划还值钱。
  Huàkuàng bǐhua hái zhíqián.
  The frame itself is worth more than the picture.
• 画框比画还值钱。
  The frame itself is worth more than the picture.
• 这个画框能让画升值。
  Zhège huàkuàng néng ràng huà shēngzhí.
  This picture frame can make the picture rise in value.
• 她们把窗框涂成了黄色。
  They painted the window frames yellow.
• 整个框架由铁金属制成。
  The whole framework was made of iron.
• CakePHP 是 PHP 框架。
  CakePHP is a PHP framework.

Words starting with 框

• 框架kuàng jià(construction) frame; (fig.) framework
• 框框kuàng kuanga frame; a circle; set pattern; convention; restriction
• 框图kuàng túflowchart; block diagram
• 框子kuàng ziframe (of spectacles, small ornament etc)

Words containing 框

• 门框mén kuàngdoor frame
• 镜框jìng kuàngpicture frame; spectacle frame
• 边框biān kuàngframe; rim
• 窗框chuāng kuàngwindow frame
• 黑框hēi kuàngblack frame (esp. around glasses or a funerary portrait)
• 条条框框tiáo tiáo kuàng kuàngfixed framework (idiom); restriction of social conventions and taboos…
• 画框huà kuàngpicture frame
• 同框tóng kuàngto appear together in a photo or video clip
• 相框xiàng kuàngphoto frame
• 页框yè kuàngframe (computing)
• 区字框qū zì kuàngradical 匚
• 取景框qǔ jǐng kuàngrectangular frame used to view a scene…
• 同字框tóng zì kuàngname of the radical 冂
• 对话框duì huà kuàngdialog box (computing)
• 文本框wén běn kuàng(computing) text box
• 方框图fāng kuàng túflowchart; block diagram
• 老框框lǎo kuàng kuàngrigid conventions; reactionary framework
• 复选框fù xuǎn kuàngcheck box
• 连接框lián jiē kuàngconnection frame; linked frame
• 引线框架yǐn xiàn kuàng jià(electronics) lead frame
• 木框mù kuàngwooden frame
• 讯框中继xùn kuàng zhōng jìframe relay (telecommunications)
• 镜框舞台jìng kuàng wǔ táitheatrical set
• 三框栏sān kuàng lánradical 匚

Characters built on 匡

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

• 筐kuāngbasket
• 眶kuàng(bound form) eye socket; Taiwan pr. kuāng
• 诓kuāngto mislead; to swindle
• 哐kuāng(onomatopoeia) crash; bang; clang

Characters that look like 框

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

• 描miáoto depict; to trace (a drawing); to copy
• 猫māocat; (dialect) to hide oneself; (loanword; colloquial) modem
• 捂wǔto enclose; to cover with the hand (one's eyes, nose or ears); to cover up (an affair)
• 猖chāngferocious
• 梧wúSterculia platanifolia
• 柩jiùbier

Sounds the same

Read kuàng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 况moreover; situation
• 矿mineral deposit; ore deposit; ore; a mine
• 旷to neglect; to skip (class or work); to waste (time)
• 眶(bound form) eye socket; Taiwan pr. kuāng
• 贶to bestow; to confer
• 圹tomb
• 絖fine floss-silk or cotton
• 纩fine floss-silk or cotton
• 卝classical variant of 矿
• 邝surname Kuang
• 丱old variant of 矿
• 爌old variant of 旷; bright and spacious