廣 (gwong2 | guang3) : broad; wide; vast; expand; spread

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廣

gwong2

guang3

[1] [adj] broad; wide; vast; numerous
[2] [v] expand; spread; stretch; promote
[3] [n] Guangdong province; Guangzhou city

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Stroke count: 15

Level: 1

Radical: 广 (#53)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

廣 / 广

This word has been viewed 17593 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 13th Apr 2014 06:53

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廣東 gwong2 dung1 guang3 dong1 = Guangdong; Canton province

廣東話 gwong2 dung1 waa6*2 guang3 dong1 hua4 = Cantonese language

廣場 gwong2 coeng4 guang3 chang3 = public square

廣州 gwong2 zau1 guang3 zhou1 = Guangzhou; Canton

廣府話 gwong2 fu2 waa6*2 guang3 fu3 hua4 = Cantonese language

廣州話 gwong2 zau1 waa6*2 guang3 zhou1 hua4 = Cantonese language

廣告 gwong2 gou3 guang3 gao4 = advertisement; ad

京廣 ging1 gwong2 jing1 guang3 = Beijing-Guangdong

兩廣 loeng5 gwong2 liang3 guang3 = the two provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi (in Qing times)

廣九 gwong2 gau2 guang3 Jiu3 = Guangdong and Kowloon (e.g. railway)
See all 127 compounds (CantoDict reports 140 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

Showing all 16 examples containing 廣

我唔識講廣東話粵
I don't speak Cantonese.

我識聽廣東話粵
I understand [spoken] Cantonese.

我識講廣東話。粵
I know how to speak Cantonese.

我最鐘意嘅台灣歌手就係盧廣仲粵
My favourite Taiwanese singer is Crowd Lu.

呢個用廣東話點講呀? 粵
How do you say this in Cantonese?

我啲廣東話好到你唔信呀！粵
My Cantonese is better than you think!
[bragging]

廣東話好難學粵
Cantonese is very difficult to learn.

你啲廣東話進步咗好多！粵
Your Cantonese has improved a lot!

學廣東話好好玩。粵
Learning Cantonese is very interesting.

點先可以學好廣東話呢？粵
How actually can I learn Cantonese well?
[點先 is the abbreviated form of 點樣先至。先至 means ‘really; actually’ here, often used with 呢 at the end of a sentence for emphasis. See this thread for details: http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?1,111468,111471#msg-1114]

王先生要經廣州前往桂林。
Mr Wong wants to go to Guilin via Guangzhou.

乜呢張廣告貼到周街都係㗎! 粵
This advertisement is being posted all over the place!

人哋啱啱學廣東話，發音唔準，你就唔好嘥人啦。粵
Her pronunciation is a bit off as she has started learning Cantonese not long ago. You shouldn't tease her.
[http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?1,135838,135838#msg-135838]

有時廣東話講起上嚟都幾繑口粵
Sometimes Cantonese can be very hard to pronounce.

我攞咗兩個禮拜前喺廣城買嗰件衫去洗粵
I took the shirt I bought two weeks ago at the shopping mall to be cleaned.
[Lit. I took two weeks ago at shopping mall buy that shirt go clean]

如果你真係有興趣學好廣東話嘅話，你就一定要聽多啲香港台粵
If you want to learn Cantonese, you must listen to more Hong Kong radio.
[Lit. If you really have interest study-well Cantonese [conditional delimiter], you then must listen more Hong Kong channel.]

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Decimal representation of this word: 廣
Unicode code for this character: U+5ee3 (off-site link)

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