洪 (hóng): flood, big, great
洪 (hóng) is a Chinese character meaning “flood.” Classified as HSK Level 6 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 氵 (structural) and 共 (structural). It ranks #1342 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 洪 all 共 the water 氵; 共 also provides the pronunciation. Its radical form 氵 (water) appears in many related characters such as 水 (shuǐ, water), 汉 (hàn, Han ethnic group), 汽 (qì, steam).
Definitions
- flood
- big
- great
Etymology & Origin
ideographicAll 共 the water 氵; 共 also provides the pronunciation
Decomposition: ⿰氵共 (layout: left-right)
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 洪
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 洪都拉斯 | hóng dū lā sī | Honduras |
| 洪流 | hóng liú | a powerful current |
| 洪亮 | hóng liàng | loud and clear |
| 防洪 | fáng hóng | flood control |
| 山洪 | shān hóng | deluge caused by torrential water flow off a mountain after heavy rain or snowmelt |
| 洪水猛兽 | hóng shuǐ měng shòu | lit. severe floods and fierce beasts (idiom) |
| 洪武 | hóng wǔ | Hongwu Emperor, also written Hung-wu Ti, reign name of first Ming emperor Zhu Yuanzhang 朱元璋[Zhu1 Yuan2 zhang1] (1328-... |
| 洪灾 | hóng zāi | flood |
| 洪堡 | hóng bǎo | Humboldt |
| 泄洪 | xiè hóng | to release flood water |
| 洪涝 | hóng lào | flood |
| 景洪 | jǐng hóng | see 景洪市[Jing3 hong2 Shi4] |
| 洪峰 | hóng fēng | flood peak |
| 洪江管理区 | hóng jiāng guǎn lǐ qū | Hongjiang Management District, a district of Huaihua City 懷化市|怀化市[Huai2 hua4 Shi4], Hunan |
| 于洪区 | yú hóng qū | Yuhong, a district of Shenyang City 瀋陽市|沈阳市[Shen3 yang2 Shi4], Liaoning |
洪 appears in 63 compound words: 65 as the first character, 22 as the last, and 13 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 洪 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (5)
Example Sentences
清晨的洪面波光粼粼，倒映着岸边的柳树。
qīng chén de hóng miàn bō guāng 粼 粼 , dǎo yìng zhe àn biān de liǔ shù .
The river glistened in the early morning light, reflecting the willow trees along the shore.
跟《卧底洪小姐》姜诺拉学无害千金穿搭 半统袜搭配玛...
gēn wò de hóng xiǎo jiě jiāng nuò lā xué wú hài qiān jīn chuān dā bàn tǒng wà dā pèi 玛 . . .
With "Undercover Miss Hong" Jiang Nora learned harmless daughter dressing semi-unified socks with Ma...
洪欣10度严寒超少布登台 全身僵硬顶硬上笑...
hóng xīn 1 0 dù yán hán chāo shǎo bù dēng tái quán shēn jiāng yìng dǐng yìng shàng xiào . . .
Hong Xin 10 degrees of severe cold super little cloth on stage, the whole body is stiff and stiff, and the top is stiff and laughs...
洪金宝电影武术项目正式开机 续写洪家班传奇...
hóng jīn bǎo diàn yǐng wǔ shù xiàng mù zhèng shì kāi jī xù xiě hóng jiā bān chuán qí . . .
Sammo Hung's film martial arts project was officially launched to continue writing the legend of the Hong family...
遭受洪水袭击 峇厘岛数百人紧急撤离
zāo shòu hóng shuǐ xí jī 峇 lí dǎo shǔ bǎi rén jǐn jí chè lí
Flooded hundreds of people in Bali were evacuated urgently
(新春走基层)山西洪洞大槐树:家庭亲子游成主流 根祖文化激活...
( xīn chūn zǒu jī céng ) shān xī hóng dòng dà huái shù : jiā tíng qīn zǐ yóu chéng zhǔ liú gēn zǔ wén huà jī huó . . .
(New Year at the grassroots level) Hongdong big locust tree in Shanxi: Family parent-child travel has become the mainstream, and the root and ancestral culture is activated...
许多房屋被洪水冲走了。
Xǔduō fángwū bèi hóngshuǐ chōngzǒu le.
A lot of houses were washed away by the flood.
堤坝保护了城市免受洪灾。
Dībà bǎohù le chéngshì miǎnshòu hóngzāi.
The bank secured the city from a flood.
小镇被暴风雨后的洪水摧毁了。
Xiǎozhèn bèi bàofēngyǔ hòu de hóngshuǐ cuīhuǐ le.
The town was destroyed by the flood after the storm.
人们因为洪水被疏散了。
Rénmen yīnwèi hóngshuǐ bèi shūsàn le.
People were evacuated because of the flood.
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