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Kanji Detail for 氾 - "overflow, spread, wide"
氾
- Meaning
氾 means "overflow, spread, wide."
To spread - To overflow; water spreading wide.
Wide - Broadly extending; reaching everywhere; universal.
To float - To drift; to bob on water.
- 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.
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