kuò
verb #42,990

Meanings

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

Examples

HSK 3
Qǐng bǎ zhòngdiǎn yòng kuòhào kuò qǐlai.
Please enclose the key points in brackets.
HSK 5
Bāokuò nǐ zàinèi, yígòng wǔ gè rén.
Including you, there are five people in total.

Tips

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

Components

radical
shǒu
hand (left-side radical of 手)
Left hand radical signals a manual action: gathering things and bundling them up. Indexes in the action family ( to pull, to gather, to embrace) and carries the meaning: tying things together with one's hands.
phonetic
shé
tongue
Right - a tongue extending from a mouth - supplies the sound here through an older reading rather than today's tongue word, since the right side is historically a different graph that merged in form. Pure phonetic role, with no tongue-meaning carried into .

Stroke Order

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