Kanji N1

拡: broaden, extend, expand

拡 is a JLPT N1 kanji meaning broaden, extend, expand, written with 8 strokes. It is read カク, コウ (on) and ひろがる, ひろげる, ひろめる (kun). Children in Japan learn it in grade 6. You will see it in 拡大 (かくだい, expansion) and 拡散 (かくさん, spreading).

拡

Meanings

  • broaden
  • extend
  • expand
  • enlarge
Strokes8
JLPT levelN1
School gradeGrade 6
Frequency#611 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • カク
  • コウ

On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.

Kun reading
  • ひろがる
  • ひろげる
  • ひろめる

Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.

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Common words with 拡

The most useful words written with it, easiest first. Every other kanji in them opens its own page.

  • 拡大かくだい

    expansion; extension

    JLPT N3
  • 拡散かくさん

    spreading; disseminating; scattering

    JLPT N1
  • 拡充かくじゅう

    expansion

    JLPT N2
  • 拡張かくちょう

    expansion; extension; enlargement

    JLPT N2
  • 軍拡ぐんかく

    military expansion; arms buildup

  • 拡大均衡かくだいきんこう

    an expanded or expanding equilibrium

  • 拡張子かくちょうし

    file extension

  • 拡声器かくせいき

    megaphone; bullhorn; loudhailer

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Stroke order from KanjiVG © Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Readings, meanings and words from KANJIDIC2 and JMdict, names from JMnedict, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata, CC0. JLPT lists after Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk), CC BY.