漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
洪: deluge, flood
Also: vast
JLPT N19 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
氵 carries the meaning · 共 gives the sound
9 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
コウkou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 洪水こうずいflood; flooding
- 洪こうHungary
- 洪積こうせきdiluvial epoch
Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Imagine three raindrops falling—that's sanzui! Whenever you see these three dots on the left side of a kanji, think of water, liquids, or anything that flows.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
共
Also built on together (共)
The 共 family reads キョウ (kyou); 洪 is read コウ.
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side洪 deluge · 氵
vs供 submit · 亻In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · hóng
Same form: 洪 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 洪 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 洪 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin hóng most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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