匡 — Chinese character
匡
kuāng
to correct, to revise; to restore
- Pinyin
- kuāng
- Radical
- 22 ⼕ (Right Open Box)
- Strokes
- 6
- Components
- 匚 王
- Formation
- pictophonetic — box; meaning component 匚; sound component 王
- Japanese
- 匡 as a kanji
Common words with 匡
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 匡正 | kuāng zhèng | to correct; to amend |
| 匡扶社稷 | kuāng fú shè jì | (of states within the nation) to support the ruler in governing the country |
匡 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 4 · Mencius 3 · Zhuangzi 6
- Analects 9.5
- Analects 11.22
- Analects 14.18
- Mencius 3A.4
- Mencius 3B.10
- Mencius 4B.30
- Zhuangzi The Identity of Contraries
- Zhuangzi Horses' Hoofs
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.