洪

洪 U+6D2A, 洪 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6D2A ← 洩 [U+6D29] CJK Unified Ideographs 洫 → [U+6D2B]

See also: 洚

Translingual

Han character

洪 (radical 85 水+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 水廿金 (ETC), four-corner 3418₁, composition ⿰氵共)

1. vast, immense
2. flood, deluge

References

• KangXi: page 621, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17402
• Dae Jaweon: page 1017, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1602, character 4
• Unihan data for U+6D2A

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		洪

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 洪
Large seal script	Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (共) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
港	*kroːŋʔ, *ɡloːŋs
巷	*ɡroːŋs
衖	*ɡroːŋs
鬨	*ɡroːŋs, *ɡloːŋs
烘	*qʰloːŋ, *qʰloːŋs, *ɡoːŋ, *ɡloːŋs
洪	*ɡloːŋ
鉷	*ɡloːŋ
谼	*ɡloːŋ
葓	*ɡoːŋ
哄	*ɡloːŋs
蕻	*ɡloːŋs
恭	*kloŋ
供	*kloŋ, *kloŋs
龔	*kloŋ
珙	*kloŋ, *kloŋʔ
共	*kloŋ, *ɡloŋs
髸	*kloŋ
拱	*kloŋʔ
拲	*kloŋʔ, *kloɡ
蛬	*kloŋʔ, *ɡloŋ
栱	*kloŋʔ
輁	*kloŋʔ, *ɡloŋ
舼	*ɡloŋ
輂	*kloɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡloːŋ): semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 共 (OC *kloŋ, *ɡloŋs) – a flood.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hóng (hong²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hung⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): hông / âng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: hóng
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄥˊ
    • Wade-Giles: hung²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hongr
    • IPA ^(key): /xʊŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: hung⁴
    • Yale: hùhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hung⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: hung⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /hʊŋ²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hông / âng
    • Tâi-lô: hông / âng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoong, aang
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hɔŋ²⁴/, /aŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hɔŋ²⁴/, /aŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hɔŋ¹³/, /aŋ¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /hɔŋ²⁴/, /aŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hɔŋ²³/, /aŋ²³/

Note:

• hông - literary;
• âng - vernacular.

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• Middle Chinese: /ɦuŋ/▼

Rime
Character	洪
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	東 (1)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	戸公切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦuŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦuŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣuŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦəwŋ/
Li Rong	/ɣuŋ/
Wang Li	/ɣuŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣuŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hóng

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡloːŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	洪
Reading #	1/1
No.	4156
Phonetic component	共
Rime group	東
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	洪
Old Chinese	/*ɡloːŋ/

Definitions

洪

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Compounds

• 洪波
• 洪大
• 洪都拉斯
• 洪恩
• 洪峰
• 洪福
• 洪荒
• 洪亮
• 洪量
• 洪流
• 洪炉
• 洪水
• 洪水猛兽
• 洪涛
• 洪灾
• 洪钟

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Japanese

Kanji

洪

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: ぐ (gu) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kan’on: こう (kō)
• Kun: おおみず (ōmizu)

Compounds

• 洪牙利 (ハンガリー) (Hangarī)
• 洪水 (こうずい) (kōzui)
• 洪積 (こうせき) (kōseki)
• 洪積世 (こうせきせい) (kōsekisei)
• 洪積層 (こうせきそう) (kōsekisō)
• 洪大 (こうだい) (kōdai)
• 日洪親善 (にっこうしんぜん) (Nikkō shinzen)

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Korean

Hanja

洪 • (hong) (hangeul 홍, revised hong, McCune-Reischauer hong, Yale hong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

洪 (hồng, hòng)

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