广
yǎn
#468 most
frequent character
"house on a cliff" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 53), occurring in 店, 序, 底 etc
Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
广 was drawn as a hut or building, so it first meant 'building, hut'. From there the meaning grew to cover things tied to buildings and places. In Simplified Chinese this shape replaces 廣, with 黃 left out.
Drawn as: hut or building
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