His essays are grand in vision and vigorous in style.
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history
闳 is not used independently in modern Chinese. It survives in literary compounds like 闳大 (grand) and as a surname. Its earliest sense was a gate set in an alley. It joins the gate radical 门 (traditional 門) with the phonetic 厷.
register
Literary and onomastic; appears in elevated writing and names rather than everyday speech.
The gate radical 门 (traditional 門) wraps the outside and gives the original meaning: a gateway in an alley, later extended to anything broad and grand.
