hóng
flood
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 共 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 洪
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
deluge | ||
flood | ||
flood control | ||
Honduras | ||
a powerful current |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 3.0274% of movies
2425th most common character in movies
1350th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+6D2A |
Shuowen | “洪，洚水也。从水，共聲。” |
Sources
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