扩 (kuò): to expand
扩 (kuò) is a Chinese character meaning “to expand.” Classified as HSK Level 5 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 扌 (phonetic) and 广 (semantic). It ranks #1050 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 扩 wide. Its radical form 扌 (hand) appears in many related characters such as 手 (shǒu, hand), 打 (dǎ, hit, make), 找 (zhǎo, to look for).
Definitions
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Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 扩
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 扩散 | kuò sàn | to spread |
| 扩张 | kuò zhāng | expansion |
| 扩音器 | kuò yīn qì | megaphone |
| 扩充 | kuò chōng | to expand |
| 扩建 | kuò jiàn | to extend (a building, an airport runway etc) |
| 扩大化 | kuò dà huà | to extend the scope |
| 扩音机 | kuò yīn jī | amplifier |
| 扩容 | kuò róng | to ramp up capacity |
| 核扩散 | hé kuò sàn | nuclear proliferation |
| 扩展名 | kuò zhǎn míng | (file) extension (computing) |
| 扩胸器 | kuò xiōng qì | chest expander (exercise equipment) |
| 扩大再生产 | kuò dà zài shēng chǎn | to expand production |
| 海底扩张说 | hǎi dǐ kuò zhāng shuō | theory of seafloor spreading (geology) |
| 可扩展标记语言 | kě kuò zhǎn biāo jì yǔ yán | extensible markup language (XML) |
| 海底扩张 | hǎi dǐ kuò zhāng | seafloor spreading (geology) |
扩 appears in 35 compound words: 77 as the first character, 3 as the last, and 20 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 扩 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (1)
Example Sentences
公司计划扩大生产规模，预计明年产能翻倍。
Gōngsī jìhuà kuòdà shēngchǎn guīmó, yùjì míngnián chǎnnéng fān bèi.
The company plans to expand production scale; capacity is expected to double next year.
扩产也来不及!全球记忆体荒将成AI竞争关键...
kuò chǎn yě lái bù jí ! quán qiú jì yì tǐ huāng jiāng chéng A I jìng zhēng guān jiàn . . .
It's too late to expand production! The global memory shortage will become the key to AI competition...
强生扩大高附加价值品项 接单动能曝光!
qiáng shēng kuò dà gāo fù jiā jià zhí pǐn xiàng jiē dān dòng néng pù guāng !
Johnson & Johnson expands high value-added items and exposes the momentum of receiving orders!
外媒:春节全球影响力持续扩大
wài méi : chūn jié quán qiú yǐng xiǎng lì chí xù kuò dà
Foreign media: The global influence of the Spring Festival continues to expand
“友谊”管道中断背后的博弈:能源战与欧盟扩员之争
yǒu yì guǎn dào zhōng duàn bēi hòu de bó yì néng yuán zhàn yú ōu méng kuò yuán zhī zhēng
The Game Behind the Disruption of the "Friendship" Pipeline: The Energy War and the EU Expansion Debate
欧股跌幅扩大,欧洲斯托克50指数跌0.86%
ōu gǔ diē fú kuò dà , ōu zhōu sī tuō kè zhǐ shǔ diē .
European shares extend losses, Euro Stoxx 50 down 0.86 percent
癌细胞已经扩散到她的胃。
áixìbāo yǐjīng kuòsàn dào tā de wèi.
The cancer has spread to her stomach.
他们扩阔了帝国的领土。
Tāmen kuò kuò le dìguó de lǐngtǔ.
They increased the territory of the empire.
西面大楼的扩建在研究中。
Xīmiàn dàlóu de kuòjiàn zài yánjiū zhōng.
The expansion of the building's west end is being studied.
最近，来自亚洲各国的进口额不断扩大。
Zuì jìn, láizì Yàzhōu gèguó de jìnkǒu é bù duàn kuòdà.
The imports from Asian countries have expanded recently.
Character Family
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