漢字Kanji · in Animals & Wildlife
鴻: large bird, wild goose
Also: large, great, powerful, prosperous
JLPT N117 strokesName kanji (jinmeiyō)Your ink: 白 Not met
鳥 carries the meaning · 江 is drawn in
17 strokes
Two readings, and the words that use each
コウkou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 鴻大こうだいgreat; immense
- 鴻基こうきfoundation of a great project
おおとりootori · kun'yomi · on its own
- 鴻おおとりlarge bird
Also read ゴウ, ひしくい, おおがり, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“See the bird perched on a branch, ready to take flight! The top horizontal line is the head, the box with a dot is the sharp eye, and the strokes below show the beautiful feathers of the wings and tail.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Also read ゴウ
12 kanji share this on'yomiIn ChineseSimplified 鸿 · traditional, as in Japanese · hóng
Japan keeps the traditional form 鴻; mainland China simplifies it to 鸿.
- Simplified
- 鸿 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 鴻 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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