hào

great

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

is a component form of .

告 sound component

  Sound component

gào

  

tell

Evolution

浩 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
浩 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
浩 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

hào

great, numerous, vast, abundant; grand; vast (water)

Most common words with 浩
Freq.
Word
Meaning

grand

浩劫

calamity

浩瀚

boundless

呼和浩特

Hohhot prefecture-level city, capital of Inner Mongolia autonomous region 內蒙古自治區|内蒙古自治区[Nèi​měng​gǔ​Zì​zhì​qū]

浩浩荡荡

grandiose

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g]ˤuʔ

hawX

hào

vast


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.1144% of movies

2328th most common character in movies

1864th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+6D69

Shuowen

“浩,澆也。从水,告聲。《虞書》曰:‘洪水浩浩。’”


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