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Kanji Detail for 洪 - "flood"

洪

  • Meaning

    洪 means "flood." Also associated with great.

    1. Flood - A great overflow of water.

    2. Great - Large; immense; vast.

  • Words using 洪

    • 洪水 こうずい Listen flood; flooding

  • Tattoo check: 洪

    • Verified meaning: flood
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read あん, おおみず, きょう, こ)
    • Also carries these associations: great

    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 洪

    Given names 洪(こう)Listen 洪(ひろし)Listen

    Surnames 洪(あん)Listen 洪(おおみず)Listen 洪(きょう)Listen 洪(こ)Listen 洪(ごう)Listen 洪(こうざき)Listen 洪(ほ)Listen 洪(ほん)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    deluge; flood; vast

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    vast, immense; flood, deluge

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    surname Hong

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    deluge, flood; immense, vast

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

    Great. As in calling great capacity 洪量, great fortune 洪福.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    koh(コウ) コウ

  • Kunyomi

    tip
    none

  • Strokes

    tip

    9 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    水 氵 氺 (mizu・sanzui・shitamizu)

  • Related Keywords

    flood great deluge big gush heavy rain high water huge immense inundation large overflow rush spate surge sweep torrent

Sentences including 洪

  • The bridge gave way because of the flood.

  • The levee kept the floodwater back.

  • The flood began to subside.

  • Earthquakes and floods are natural disasters.

  • The flood diverted the course of the river.

  • The bridge was carried away by the flood.

  • The village was isolated by the flood.

  • The house was carried away by the flood.

  • The rice crop was poor, owing to the floods.

  • Earthquakes and floods are natural disasters.

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