匡
Meanings
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- 1.surname Kuang
- 1.(literary) to rectify
- 2.(literary) to assist
- 3.(coll.) to calculate roughly; to estimate
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Wiktionary
- 1.upright
- 2.to correct; to rectify
- 3.to assist
- 4.to save; to rescue
- 5.to predict; to expect
- 6.to lose
- 7.name of an ancient book
- 8.name of two ancient places in Henan
- 9.shell of crabs
- 10.a surname
- 11.clash; bang
- 12.frame
- 13.framework
- 14.door frame
- 15.to restrain; to restrict
- 16.eye socket, cranial orbit
- 17.rim of the eye; skin around the eyes
- 18.bamboo basket or chest (especially square)
- 19.to deceive; to cheat; to defraud
- 20.to coax
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Etymology
Pictogram of a square-shaped bamboo basket (perhaps originally made to contain millet and rice); the inner component is 㞷, which today retains only the bottom component 王 as a phonetic element. The inner component The original form is 匩 and the original meaning is preserved in 筐.
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Components
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Related words
匡正 to correct倪匡 Ni Kuang (1935–2022), Chinese novelist and screenwriter赵匡胤 Zhao Kuangyin, personal name of founding Song emperor Song Taizu 宋太祖 (927-976)徐匡迪 Xu Kuangdi (1937-), PRC politician and former mayor of Shanghai匡扶社稷 (of states within the nation) to support the ruler in governing the country