扩
kuò · HSK 7
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🔍 扌 hand + 广 wide = a hand making things wide → enlarge
The 扌 hand radical plus 广 (broad, wide) gives the sense of a hand stretching something out to make it bigger. Sound kuò also echoes the broad 广 part it contains.
扩 — hand radical 扌 + 广 (kuàng/guǎng, wide)
扩 is the simplified form of 擴. It is a semantic-phonetic compound: the hand radical 扌 suggests the action of pushing or stretching, while 广 hints at the sound and the idea of wideness. Together they convey 'to extend' or 'to expand'.