阔
kuò · HSK 6
wide
🚪💰 门 gate + 活 live = a gate wide enough to live inside — broad and rich
In old China, only the wealthy had gates wide enough for carriages. The wider your gate, the richer you were. kuò even sounds like quota — a broad allowance of space or wealth.
阔 — door 門 + 活 huó (phonetic)
A semantic-phonetic compound: 門 ('door/gate') gives the meaning of a wide opening, while 活 supplies the sound. Originally suggesting a broad gateway, it came to mean 'wide, vast, spacious,' as in 广阔 or 阔气 ('extravagant').