Chinese Character Wiki
泓

hóng

clear water

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 弘 represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

弘 sound,meaning component

弘  Sound Meaning component

hóng

  

vast

Evolution

泓 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
泓 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
泓 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
泓 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

泓  

hóng

clear, deep pool of water; clear; vast and deep; classifier for a body of clear water

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4409th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+6CD3

Shuowen

“泓，下深皃。从水，弘聲。”


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