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闳 (traditional 閎) is a phono-semantic compound combining the semantic radical 门 'gate' and the phonetic 厷. Originally it denoted a large gate or the main entrance to an alley or village. The meaning then broadened to vastness and grandeur, and it is commonly used as an adjective meaning 'vast' or 'magnificent', extending from physical largeness to the abstract expansiveness of ideas, knowledge, or spaces.
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