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Kanji Detail for 濤 - "wave, surge"

濤

  • Meaning

    濤 means "wave, surge."

    1. Wave - A great swell.

    2. Surge - To swell and billow.

  • Four-character idioms with 濤

    • 波濤万里 はとうばんり Listen faraway lands; voyage to faraway lands
    • 疾風怒濤 しっぷうどとう Listen storm and stress; Sturm und Drang

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    waves; billows

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    large waves

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    big wave; Taiwan pr. [tao2]

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    large waves

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

    Large waves. Also used metaphorically for powerful momentum. As the sound of pines is called 松濤 (pine waves).

  • Onyomi

    tip

    toh(トウ) トウ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    na.mi(なみ) なみ

  • Strokes

    tip

    18 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    水 氵 氺 (mizu・sanzui・shitamizu)

  • Related Keywords

    wave surge billow swell breaker

Sentences including 濤

  • His career is progressing in leaps and bounds.

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