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Kanji Detail for 鴻 - "great"

鴻

  • Meaning

    鴻 means "great." Also associated with swan, big.

    1. Swan - A large waterfowl of the duck family; a great white swan.

    2. Great - Large; vast; immense.

  • Four-character idioms with 鴻

    • 燕雀鴻鵠 えんじゃくこうこく Listen how can a small bird (a sparrow, a petty person) understand the aspirations of a great bird (a phoenix); only a hero can understand a hero
    • 雪泥鴻爪 せつでいのこうそう Listen ephemeral nature of human deeds and events; evanescence of human affairs; leaving no trace

  • Tattoo check: 鴻

    • Verified meaning: great
    • Jinmeiyō kanji — officially approved for use in Japanese given names
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read おおとり, おおどり, こう, こうざき)
    • Also carries these associations: swan, big

    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 鴻

    Given names 鴻(こう)Listen 鴻(ひとし)Listen 鴻(ひろ)Listen 鴻(ひろし)Listen

    Surnames 鴻(おおとり)Listen 鴻(おおどり)Listen 鴻(こうざき)Listen 鴻(こうのいけ)Listen 鴻(つよし)Listen 鴻(びしゃこ)Listen 鴻(びしゃご)Listen 鴻(びしやご)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    large bird; wild goose; large; great; powerful; prosperous

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    species of wild swan; vast

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    eastern bean goose; great; large

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    a species of wild swan; vast

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

    A water bird name. Larger than a goose. Gray back and neck. Black wings and white belly. Likes to gather at lake edges to eat water chestnuts and such. | Interchangeable with 洪. Means great. 鴻禧 is like saying great fortune.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    goh(ゴウ) ゴウ

    koh(コウ) コウ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    hishikui(ひしくい) ひしくい

    oogari(おおがり) おおがり

    ootori(おおとり) おおとり

  • Strokes

    tip

    17 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    鳥 (tori・torihen)

  • Related Keywords

    swan great big wild goose vast large grand magnificent majestic immense impressive notable significant bird migration

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