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洪 = 共 + 水

洪 is a Japanese kanji written with 9 strokes, listed here under the keyword “deluge”. It is built from 共 (together) and 水 (water). In Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig it is frame 1939.

Keyword
deluge
RTK frame
1939
Strokes
9
On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading)
コウ
Script
Japanese kanji
Also known as
потоп
Same glyph as a Chinese hanzi
洪 vast

Decomposition

Primary decomposition

  1. 共 together
  2. 水 water

How to find 洪 without knowing its reading

On KumiJi Glyph Explorer, open the parts search and type “together” + “water”. 洪 is among the results, together with every other character containing the same shapes.

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