The Chinese Radical: 广


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Meaning
building    广

Explanation At the explanation this radical is understood as building. The Hanzi 广 (guǎng) itself means: extensive, wide, numerous or to spread

Used in these characters:
JLPT HSK 1
shop, store, inn
diàn
广
Top: building 广, below: fortune telling 占 (crack 卜 in the shell 口 of a turtle, from which the fortune was told. HERE: a key with the teeth 卜 and the handle 口)
The building that is locked with a key is: a shop.  
JLPT HSK 2
bed, couch
chuáng
广
Top: building 广, below: tree 木
It is in the building and wooden: The bed.  
JLPT HSK 3
should, ought to, to deal with, to answer, to respond
yīng, yìng
广
Left: Building 广, below: compressed variation of standing 立
In the building to be able to stand? That's what you should!  
JLPT HSK 3
healthy, peaceful, abundant
kāng
广
Left/top: building 广, below: a hand with a spoon 丨 stirs a liquid 水
In a building a hand stirs a soup that is healthy.  
JLPT HSK 3
pants, trousers, drawers

广
Left: clothes 衤/衣, right: warehouse 库 (If there is a vehicle 车/車 in a building 广, then in the warehouse.)
Clothes for the warehouse are the pants.  
JLPT HSK 4
seat, base, stand, classifier for buildings, mountains
zuò
广
From top: building 广, to sit 坐 (Two persons 人人 sit on the earth/ground 土)
In the building you sit on your seat/place.  
JLPT HSK 4
sequence, order, preface

广
From top: building 广, to give, bestow 予 (The bent person マ has a nail 丁 to give.)
In the building it is given the correct sequence.  
JLPT HSK 4
bottom, base, background
de, dǐ
广
Outside: building 广, below: floor, foundation 氐 (The family 氏 sits down 一 on the floor.) [氏 = A distorted person 人 = 亻= 厂 together with a "plus +" as a multiplier results in a family.]
In the house, the family sits on the bottom.  
JLPT HSK 4
hemp or flax fiber, numb

广
Left: building 广, below: forest 林
In the building is (protected) a whole forest of hemp.  
JLPT HSK 4
degree, measure, x-times, extent

广 廿
Outside: building 广, below: various objects 廿 (means actually: twenty), hand 又
In the house is an object with which the hand measures x-times the degrees.  
JLPT HSK 4
ore, mine
kuàng
广
Left: stone 石 (At the cliff 厂 is a stone 口), right: building 广 (here: company 厂 with a small chimney 丶)
Stones are processed in this company: an ore mine.  
JLPT HSK 4
sugar, sweets, candy
táng
广
Left: rice 米, right: Tang dynasty 唐 (In the building 广 the hand with pestle 丨 and mortar 口 during Tang)
You use rice in a building to squeeze it with a pestle 丨 in a hand and a mortar to get: sugar.  
广
JLPT HSK 4
extensive, wide, numerous, to spread
guǎng
广
A small person 丶 in distance on a cliff 厂 (actually: factory, production site) [The radical is explained as 'building']
With that small person, the cliff appears very extensive.  
JLPT HSK 5
celebrate, congratulate, festival
qìng
广
Outside: building 广, inside: big 大
When you make the building 'big', you want to celebrate.  
JLPT HSK 5
banquet, woven mat, seat (in an assembly, theater)

广 廿
Outside: building 广, below: var. objects 廿, cloth 巾
In the building, they use things of cloth: as seats.  
JLPT HSK 5
to abolish, to abandon, discard, waste
fèi
广
Left: building 广, right: to send out 发 (The mountain 山 was drawn by the hand 又 untidy, but (the letter) needs to be sent out.)
If the building is 'sent out' it is abolished.  
JLPT HSK 5
main hall, court, courtyard
tíng
广
Left: building 广, below: judicial court 廷 (The movement 廴 of the scholar 士 with a hat 壬 [=judge] to the court.)
The building of the court is its main hall.  
JLPT HSK 5
rotten, decay, corrosion, fermented

广
Top: seat of government 府 (The building 广 in which it is handed over 付 [to person 亻with skillful hands 寸], is the seat of the government.), below: meat, bodypart 肉
In the government is 'seated' meat that is rotten.  
JLPT HSK 5
seat of government, official residence, presidential palace

广
Left: building 广, below: hand over/pay 付 (A person 亻with a skillful hand 寸 handing over sth.)
The building in which it is handed over, is the seat of the government.  
JLPT HSK 5
enlarge (photo), extend, magnify, expand
kuò
广
Left: hand 扌, right: building 广
Put your hand on the building to enlarge it.  
JLPT HSK 5
warehouse, storehouse, reservoir, arsenal

广
Outside: building 广, inside: vehicle 车 (車= cart with axle丨 load-area 日 wheels 二)
The building for vehicles is the warehouse.  
JLPT HSK 5
dyke, embankment, pool or pond, hot-water bathing pool
táng
广
Left: earth 土, right: Tang dynasty 唐 (In the building 广 the hand with pestle 丨 and mortar 口 during Tang)
If by earth a "building" is made by hand as a surrounding mouth, it is a: dyke (embarkment) for a pond.  
JLPT HSK 6
cheaply-priced, inexpensive, incorruptible, honest
lián
广
Outside: building 广, below: twice, combine 兼 (A hand /ヨ holds two rice plants 禾 combined.)
(Terraced/rowed housing:) Buildings that are combined are cheaply-priced.  
JLPT HSK 6
huge, enormous, tremendous
páng
广
Outside: building 广, inside: dragon 龙 (The outstanding 丶 person 尤 has a broken leg 乚 with a winding dragon ノ)
A building like a dragon: such huge.  
JLPT HSK 6
temple, ancestral shrine, temple fair
miào
广
Left: building 广, right: reason 由 (The seedling/sprout 丨 in the field 田 has its reason.)
The building where you go to with a real reason is: the temple.  
JLPT HSK 6
to wind around, spool, coil, to involve
chán
广
Left: thread 纟/糸, right: building 广, village 里 (here: spool 土 in a bearing 田)
Threads can be wound (within the building) onto a spool.  
JLPT HSK 6
corridor, veranda, porch
láng
广
Outside: building 广, bottom: a youth 郎 (.. the good 良 one from the village⻏)
In the building is a youth in the corridor.  
JLPT HSK 6
to conceal, to cover up (a shortcoming), to screen off
zhē
广 廿
Left: movement 辶, right: commonly, ordinary 庶 (A building 广 with various objects 廿 is in fire 灬 which commonly can happen.)
(In a magic trick you make inconspicuous movements) With an ordinary movement you can conceal/hide something.  
JLPT HSK 6
ordinary, to use (often negative)
yōng
广
Outside: building 广, below: hand , holding a pestle 丨, combined with use 用
When in a building a hand uses a pestle, it is very ordinary.  
JLPT HSK 6
farmstead, manor, village
zhuāng
广
Left: building 广, below: earth 土
The building next to earth is: a farmstead.  
JLPT HSK 6
to exaggerate, empty, in vain, Tang-Dynasty
táng
广
Outside: building 广, below: hand 肀, with pestle 丨, mortar 口
Buildings in which a hand uses a mortar were exaggerated in Tang China???  
JLPT HSK 6
vast, neglect, desert, waste, wilderness
kuàng
广
Left: sun 日, right: (empty) building 广
When the sun shines into an empty building, it appears as vast wilderness.  
JLPT HSK 6
to protect, cover, shelter, hide or harbor

广
Left: building 广, right: compare 比 (two sitting persons 匕)
Buildings are comparatively (suitable) for protecting.  
JLPT HSK 6
big, wide, outline
kuò
广
Left: building 广, right: city wall 郭 (Enjoyable 享 for a village⻏ is its city wall.) [to enjoy= 享 = the tall 高 child 子 enjoys.]
A building like a city-wall, is: big & wide.  
JLPT no HSK
eagle, falcon, hawk
yīng
广
Left: building 广, right: person 亻, bird 隹, bird 鸟
Above the building and (big as) a person is the bird that kills other birds: the eagle.  
JLPT no HSK
surname Liao
liào
广
Left: building 广, right: sound of the wind 翏 (At feather 羽 or the beard 㐱 you feel the wind.) [㐱 = person 人 with beard 彡]
In the building which rustles lives family Liào.  
JLPT no HSK
hut, cottage

广
Left: building 广, right: sliding door 戸
A building with only a sliding door is: a small hut.  
JLPT no HSK
common people (or populace), numerous
shù
广 廿
From top: building 广, various objects 廿, fire 灬
A building with various objects on the fire, just like ordinary/common people do.  
JLPT no HSK
hut, small temple, nunnery
ān
广
Outside: building 广, below: suddenly 奄 (i.e. lighting strike: The big 大 electricity 电 comes suddenly.) [electricity 电 = field 田 with lightning rod 乚]
A building that (can be built) suddenly, is a small hut.  
JLPT no HSK
age, 7th of the 10 Heavenly Stems 十天干
gēng
广
Left: building 广, right: hand , person 人
In the building, a hand grasps a person with the question of: his age.  
JLPT no HSK
persist, continue (as a song)
gēng
广
Top: age, 7th Heavenly Stems 庚 (In the building 广 a hand grasps a person 人 with the question of: his age), bottom: money 贝/貝
If there are in the building three working (=they have hands) people with money, they can stay/persist (=continue)  
JLPT no HSK
sickle, scythe
lián
广
Left: metal 钅/金, right: cheaply-priced 廉 (here: image of a sickle 广, combine 兼 [A hand holding two rice plants 禾])
Made of metal is the sickle 广, which cuts combined (plant's bundles): The sickle.  

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