hào
great
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 告 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 浩
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
grand | ||
calamity | ||
boundless | ||
Hohhot prefecture-level city, capital of Inner Mongolia autonomous region 內蒙古自治區|内蒙古自治区[NèiměnggǔZìzhìqū] | ||
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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