The kanji 洪: meaning, readings and stroke order
洪
- Meaning
- flood, vast
- On reading
- コウ kou
- Kun reading
- —
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 水 water
- Level
- Level 9 · senior high school
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- lũ lớn, to lớn (hồng)
- Japanese
- おおみず。おおきい。
- Korean
- 큰물, 넓다 (홍)
- Chinese
- 洪水、宏大
Readings, words and example sentences
コウ kou · on reading · less common
洪水
flood
大雨で 洪水が 起きました。
Heavy rain caused a flood.
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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.