旷

kuàng = ku + ang4

to neglect / to skip (class or work) / to waste (time) / vast / loose-fitting

旷 = 广 + 日 : The sun (日) is lecturing Karl Koala (ku) in the anglepod's bathroom (ang4), but Karl Koala rather skips class (旷) by hiding under a wide (旷) parachute (广) and playing video games in his hideout.

旷 character breakdown

旷
- 广
  - 丿
  - 亠
    - 一
    - 丶
- 日
  - 一
  - 囗

yǎn = y + an3

"house on a cliff" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 53), occurring in 店, 序, 底 etc

guǎng = gu + ang3

surname Guang

广 = 亠 + 丿 : The English Wiktionary lists "canopy" as a possible meaning, and an example for a canopy is the upper part of a parachute. That's what I'll use to represent this character in other characters. In the anglepod, Gitta Giraffe just invented the art of building a parachute out of berets and bananas, using the berets as canopy and banana peels as strings. Soon, this new sport spreads all over the world as the new thing to do.

guǎng = gu + ang3

wide / numerous / to spread

广 = 亠 + 丿 : The English Wiktionary lists "canopy" as a possible meaning, and an example for a canopy is the upper part of a parachute. That's what I'll use to represent this character in other characters. In the anglepod, Gitta Giraffe just invented the art of building a parachute out of berets and bananas, using the berets as canopy and banana peels as strings. Soon, this new sport spreads all over the world as the new thing to do.

rì = r + Ø4

abbr. for 日本[Ri4 ben3], Japan

rì = r + Ø4

sun / day / date, day of the month

日 = 囗 + 一 : Robinson Crusoe (r) is hiding from the sun (日) in an enclosure (囗) full of flutes (一) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4).

Characters with 旷 as component

旷 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 旷

to play truant / to cut classes

to skip work / absence without leave

since the dawn of time / from the year dot

agoraphobia

incomparable / none to compare with at that time

unrivalled / without peer in this generation

never before in the whole of history (idiom) / unprecedented

never before in the whole of history (idiom) / unprecedented / also written 曠古未有|旷古未有

open space / open field

bachelor / unmarried man

to neglect (work) / to waste (one's talents)

time-lapse photography

remote and vast

to fail to show up for work

to waste / to squander

broad-minded / accepting / philosophical (about things)

vast

to leave uncultivated for a long time / by extension, to neglect one's work / to remain single

expansive / level and broad / broad-minded

vast / extensive

Sentences with 旷

旷 currently does not appear in any sentence.