鴻
鴻 — hong
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 기러기 홍
- Romanization
- hong
- English
- species of wild swan; vast
- Mandarin
- hóng
- Japanese on'yomi
- コウ, グ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- おおとり ひしくい おおがり
- Japanese usage
- Jinmeiyō kanji
- Newspaper frequency
- #2,111 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 17
- Radical
- 鳥 (196, 6 residual)
- Unicode
- U+9D3B
Words written with 鴻
- 홍호鴻號 널리 알려진 이름. 또는 임금의 이름
- 홍덕鴻德 넓고 큰 덕. 또는 그런 덕을 가진 사람
- 홍모鴻毛 기러기의 털이라는 뜻으로, 매우 가벼운 사물을 이르는 말
- 홍곡鴻鵠 큰 기러기와 고니라는 뜻으로, 포부가 원대하고 큰 인물을 이르는 말
- 홍명鴻溟 큰 바다.
- 홍모鴻謨 큰 계획.
- 홍보鴻寶 큰 보물.
- 홍연鴻淵 큰 연못.
- 홍유鴻猷 큰 계략.
- 홍적鴻積 큰 사업.
- 홍희鴻禧 큰 복력.
- 홍공鴻功 크나큰 공로.
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 鴻
- 鴻ひしくい bean goose (Anser fabalis)
- 鴻基こうき foundation of a great project; base of a great enterprise
- 鴻業こうぎょう glorious achievement
- 鴻毛こうもう something extremely light; feather of a large bird
- 鴻雁こうがん wild geese; large geese and small geese
- 鴻鵠こうこく large bird; great person; magnanimous person
- 鴻蒙ホンモン HarmonyOS (Huawei)
- 鴻臚館こうろかん mansion used by foreign visitors to Japan (Nara to Heian period)
- 燕雀鴻鵠えんじゃくこうこく how can a small bird (a sparrow, a petty person) understand the aspirations of a great bird (a phoenix); only a hero can understand a hero
- 雪泥鴻爪せつでいのこうそう ephemeral nature of human deeds and events; evanescence of human affairs; leaving no trace
- 燕雀安んぞ鴻鵠の志を知らんやえんじゃくいずくんぞこうこくのこころざしをしらんや only a hero can understand a hero; swallows and sparrows can't understand the aspirations of phoenixes and swans
Japanese data from EDRDG KANJIDIC2 and JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0)