Taxonomy of meanings for 曠:　　

  • 曠 kuàng (OC: khʷaaŋs MC: kʰʷɑŋ) 苦謗切 去 廣韻：【空明也逺也大也乆也又姓苦謗切五 】
    • BROAD
      • nabstativefigurative, poetic: broadness of perspective; immensity
      • vadNwide; broad; vast
      • viextensive, expansive, wide open
      • feature>EMPTY
        • vibe vast and empty
        • vtoNcausativeleave empty; cause to be all empty
        • abstract>USELESS
            • putative>NEGLECT
              • vi(of duties:) be carried out in a lax way; (of persons)be negligent, be lax; be negligent
              • vt+prep+Nfail to pay sufficient attention to (Danish: se stort på)
              • vtoNcarry out in a lax way; neglect; be lax about
          • of company>ALONE
            • vadNsingle, unattached (of men)
            • psychologicalLONELY
              • vadNlonely
              • vibe lonelyDS
        • feature>BARREN
          • and unbounded>INFINITE
            • intellectually, far-sighted>INTELLIGENT
              • gemporal>ENDURING
              • BRIGHT
                • BRILLIANT

                  Additional information about 曠

                  說文解字:

                    Criteria
                  • BLIND

                    [[CONGERIES]]

                    1. Gǔ 瞽 is the standard word for blindness (not necessarily congenital) where a person has eyeballs, but where the eyesight is impaired, some say typically by the eye-lids leaving only a small opening. The word also has figurative meanings.

                    2. Máng 盲 (ant. míng 明 "endowed with clear sight") became the standard word for blindness, but the word can apparently also refer specifically to colour-blindness in pre-Han times.

                    3. Méng 矇 / 蒙 refers specifically to blindness as a result of glaucoma, but is also current in generalised meanings referring to reduced vision.

                    4. Sǒu 瞍 refers ocasionally to blindness which is the result of atrophy or lack of eyeballs (as prototypically in the case of Music Master Kuàng 師曠 ), and this is an ancient elevated word to use.

                    5. Miǎo 眇 refers to blindness on one eye because of near-sightnedness or strabismus; and in post-Han times the word came to refer to blindness in both eyes.

                    6. Xuàn 眩 refers to non-congenital blindness, but the word is very often used metaphorically in the sense of "blinded, dazzled".

                    NB: Xiá 瞎 is post-Buddhist, SANGUO.

                  • BACHELOR

                    1. There are no competing terms for "bachelor" in classical Chinese. The current word is kuàng fū 曠夫 (opp. yuàn nu# 怨女 "unmarried woman of marrigeable age").

                  • EMPTY

                    1. The most geneal word is xū 虛 (ant. shí 實 "substantial and full") which can refer both to physical emptiness of a space and to abstract emptiness or tenuousness as a philosophical concept.

                    2. Kōng 空 (ant. mǎn 滿 "filled up") generally refers to literal emptiness of a container, but used adjectivally the word also has abstract uses as in kōng yán 空言 "empty words, abstract insubstantial discourse".

                    3. Wú 無 (ant. yǒu 有 "existence") refers to the philosophical abstract construct of "nothingness, emptiness".

                    4. Kuò 廓 and kuàng 曠 emphasise the expansiveness of the empty space.

                  • WASTE

                    1. The current general word for habitual wastefulness is hào 耗 (ant. liǎn 斂 "economical, parsimonious").

                    2. Fèi 費 (ant. jié 節 "be economical in the use of resources") refers specifically to single acts of wastefulness.

                    3. Fèi 廢 (ant. cún 存 "keep and avoid spending") refers to an inclination to use large sums without necessarily indicating that such large expenditure is wasteful.

                    4. Kuàng 曠 "waste" (ant. xī 惜 "make sparing use of") is limited to the combination kuàng rì 曠日 "waste time" (ant. shěng shí 省時 "save time" seems late).

                  • BROAD

                    1. The standard general word is guǎng 廣 (ant. xiá 狹 "narrow") referring to anything of get spatial extension, also in various metaphorical senses.

                    2. Bó 博 (ant. yuē 約 "confined") is primarily metaphorical in application, and its concrete senses applied to physical objects are derived senses of the word only.

                    3. Kuàng 曠 adds to the feature of broadness and wide space that of emptiness.

                    4. Kuò 闊 (ant. xiá 狹 "narrow") adds to the concept of broadness of spatial extent that of remote distance, and the word was late to enter the pre-Buddhist language.

                    5. Kuān 寬 (ant. zhǎi 窄 "narrow") is recorded as meaning "broad" in SHUOWEN and is so used in HOUHANSHU, but the word was predominantly used in metaphorical senses like "broad-minded, forgiving, not strict", and related to huì 惠 "generous".

                    Word relations
                  • Epithet: (BROAD)野/COUNTRYSIDE The current general word for the undelimited non-urban areas is yě 野 (ant. yì 邑 "urbanised settlement").