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括

kuò
verb #42,990

Meanings

  1. 1 to tie up
  2. 2 to include
  3. 3 to enclose

Examples

包括你在内，一共五个人。
Bāokuò nǐ zàinèi, yígòng wǔ gerén.
Including you, there are five people in total.
请把重点用括号括起来。
Qǐng bǎ zhòngdiǎn yòng kuòhào kuò qǐlai.
Please enclose the key points in brackets.

Tips

usage
Common in 包括 (bāokuò, to include) and 括号 (kuòhào, brackets).

Components

radical
扌 shǒu
hand (left-side radical of 手)
Left hand radical signals a manual action: gathering things and bundling them up. Indexes 括 in the action family (拉 to pull, 拢 to gather, 抱 to embrace) and carries the meaning: tying things together with one's hands — the literal action behind 包括 to include.
phonetic
舌 shé
tongue (here phonetic)
Right 舌 — a tongue extending from a mouth — supplies the sound shé → kuò through an older reading derived from 昏 / 活 series rather than today's tongue word (the right side is historically a different graph that merged in form). Pure phonetic role with no tongue-meaning carried into 括.

Stroke Order

括 kuò