Meanings

Deluge, Flood, Vast

Radicals

氵

Decomposition

⿰氵共

Etymology

Ideographic: All 共 the water 氵; 共 also provides the pronunciation

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 9

Stroke Order

1 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

2 dot bottom-to-top

3 rising bottom-to-top

4 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

5 vertical right-to-left

6 vertical top-to-bottom

7 horizontal bottom-to-top

8 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

9 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

コウ kou

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

No common kun'yomi readings

Words Using This Kanji

11 words total

Other (11 words)

diluvial epoch

flood

diluvial epoch

diluvium

great

heavy flooding

flood myth

glacial lake outburst flood

洪範こうはん

great model

洪こう

Hungary

洪恩こうおん

great debt of gratitude

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