hào
noun #35,428

Meanings

  1. 1 the vast sky
  2. 2 boundless heaven (literary)
  3. 3 (also) surname Hao

Examples

Hào tiān wǎng jí.
Heaven is boundless. (classical phrase, often used to describe parents' kindness)
Tā gěi érzi qǔmíng jiào Hàoyǔ.
He named his son Haoyu (literally 'vast sky and universe').

Tips

memory
Visual etymology: (sun) on top of (sky) — a sun in a vast sky. Mostly used today as a given-name character to evoke grandeur (, , ), and in classical phrases like (Book of Songs).

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