(kuàng) - situation, condition (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
kuàngTraditional: 况
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Translation
situation, condition (bound morpheme)
Word origin
A phono-semantic character combining the ice or water radical 冫 with 兄 (xiōng) as the phonetic, used for the sense of a situation or condition.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 冫 (ice radical) + 兄 (xiōng, phonetic)
Stroke order
况
Examples
？
What's the situation now?
。
The situation is complicated.
。
I understand the situation.
。
Besides, he is still just a child.
。
The situation is different now.
况 (kuàng) means situation and is bound, appearing chiefly in 情况 (qíngkuàng), the everyday word for circumstances.
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 况.
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