kuàng

tomb

Components

Meaning component
earth

earth

广
广 Sound component
guǎng roof

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

tomb Traditional

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartkhwangHkʷʰˤaŋ-sgrave pit
Zhengzhangkʰʷaːŋs

說文解字

塹穴也。一曰大也。从土廣聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica