广 Radical 53 — a building open at the front, a lean-to; in simplified writing also 廣 guǎng "wide, broad"
yǎn (third tone, dipping)
a building open at the front, a lean-to; in simplified writing also 廣 guǎng "wide, broad"
Radical 533 strokes1 characters
Where the shape comes from
A roof built out against a cliff or a standing wall, one side left open: the dot is the ridge, the horizontal the eaves, and the long sweeping stroke the wall running down. It heads rooms and buildings — 店, 座, 床, 庭, 库. Simplified writing then took the same shape over to write 廣 guǎng "wide", as in 广场 and 广告.