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漢字Kanji · in States & Attributes

皓: white, clear

JLPT N112 strokesName kanji (jinmeiyō)Your ink: 白 Not met

白 carries the meaning · 告 is drawn in

12 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

コウkou · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 皓歯こうしpearly white teeth
  • 皓然こうぜんshining brightly; shining whitely
  • 皓々こうこうbright (esp. of the moon)

Also read しろい, ひかる, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)白 white (meaning) + 告 (sound)

Source: Wiktionary, 皓 (rev. 93444298), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“White (白) + announce/tell (告). Imagine the dazzling brilliance of a "clear" and "bright" light that announces itself to the world.”
From the 白 white story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
白

Also built on white (白)

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告

Also built on revelation (告)

Also read コウ

96 kanji share this on'yomiAll 96

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
皓 white · 白
vs浩 wide expanse · 氵
皓 has 白 where 浩 has 氵.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · hào

Same form: 皓 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
皓 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
皓 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin hào 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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