幅 means “width, range”

はば · haba

Also: hanging scroll

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading): はば
On'yomi (Chinese reading): フク

JLPT N2 · Taught in secondary school · 12 strokes

The story

Cloth (巾) beside 畐, a jar filled to the brim: picture a bolt of cloth unrolled to its full width. 幅 is width, 道幅 is how wide a road is, and 大幅 is by a wide margin, as in a store's 大幅値下げ, a big price cut.

Used in 大幅 (oohaba, large/by a wide margin), 幅広い (habahiroi, wide-ranging), and 道幅 (michihaba, road width)

幅 means “width, range”

The story

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