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Kanji Detail for 氾 - "to overflow, to spread, wide"

氾

  • Meaning

    氾 means "to overflow, to spread, wide."

    1. To spread - To overflow; water spreading wide.

    2. Wide - Broadly extending; reaching everywhere; universal.

    3. To float - To drift; to bob on water.

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    • Verified meaning: to overflow, to spread, wide
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read ひろし, ひろむ)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 氾

    Given names 氾(ひろし)Listen 氾(ひろむ)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    spread out; wide

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    overflow, flood, inundate

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    used in given names and as a surname

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    to flood, to inundate, to overflow

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Water overflowing and causing disaster. Mencius says: "Flooding across the Central States" (氾濫於中國), referring to the flood disaster in Yao's time. | Broadly. Widely. Also, wavering and uncertain. All interchangeable with 汎. | Name of a river. In present-day Pingyuan, north of Cao County.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    han(ハン) ハン

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    hiro.garu(ひろ-がる) ひろ-がる

  • Strokes

    tip

    5 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    水 氵 氺 (mizu・sanzui・shitamizu)

  • Related Keywords

    to overflow to spread wide to float drift flood inundate deluge gush pervade diffuse disperse expand extensive

Sentences including 氾

  • This river is going to overflow.

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