広い
ひろい
hepburn hiroi
wide, spacious
Part of speech · i-adjective
Pattern visualization
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Examples
- 広い部屋ですね。It's a wide room.
- 視野が広い人です。A person with a broad perspective.
Collocations
広い部屋 (wide room)広い視野 (broad perspective, idiom)広場 (hiroba, plaza/square)広告 (koukoku, advertisement — "wide-tell")広さ (hirosa, width)
Mnemonic
ひろい — 広い, Yamato. An i-adjective. The opposite of 狭い semai. It reaches into two domains, spatial and perceptual ── 部屋が広い (a wide room), 視野が広い (a wide field of vision = broad-minded). In the onyomi こう kou ── 広告 koukoku (advertisement): unpack the kanji literally and it is 'to tell widely'. The essence of advertising sits in two characters. 広場 hiroba (a plaza), 広範 kouhan (extensive). 顔が広い (a wide face = well-connected) ties back to the 顔 entry ── one adjective crossing body, space, and society. The Korean reading gwang is sister to the onyomi こう.
Quick check
Etymology of 広告 (advertisement)?