| kuàng | waste/wilderness/vast/desert |
| 旷 | waste wilderness vast |
| 旷世 | incomparable none to compare with at that time |
| 旷久 | lasting; long |
| 旷代 | unrivalled without peer in this generation |
| 旷古 | since the dawn of time from the year dot |
| 旷古奇闻 | an unprecedented story |
| 旷古未有 | never before in the whole of history (idiom) unprecedented |
| 旷古未闻 | never before in the whole of history (idiom) unprecedented also written 曠古未有|旷古未有 |
| 旷夫 | bachelor unmarried man |
| 旷工 | to skip work absence without leave |
| 旷废 | to neglect (work) to waste (one's talents) |
| 旷日持久 | protracted (idiom) long drawn-out |
| 旷渺 | remote and vast |
| 旷男 | Unmarried old boy. |
| 旷职 | truancy; be absent from the office |
| 旷课 | to play truant to cut classes |
| 旷费 | waste |
| 旷达 | broad-minded; open-mind |
| 旷远 | vast and extending far into the distance; far back; ages ago; remote |
| 旷野 | wilderness |