浩

hào
adjective #12,861

Meanings

  1. 1 grand; vast
  2. 2 numerous; abundant

Examples

HSK 1
Tā de míngzi lǐ yǒu gè hào zì.
His name contains the character 浩.
HSK 7-9
Hàohàodàngdàng de dàjūn chūfā le.
The mighty army set out in grand formation.

Tips

usage
浩 is extremely popular in Chinese male names (e.g. 浩然, 浩宇, 子浩). It conveys grandeur and strength. It also appears in literary compounds like 浩瀚 (vast) and 浩劫 (catastrophe).

Components

radical
氵 shuǐ
water; liquid
氵 is the water radical 水 in left-side form. It places 浩 in the water family alongside 河 海 洋, hinting at vastness and flow, fitting for a word that came to mean grand and boundless.
phonetic
告 gào
to announce; to tell
告 (gào) supplies the sound, drifted in tone to hào in 浩. The same phonetic appears in 皓 浩 鹄, all sharing the gao/hao sound family. Faint semantic flavor of proclamation suits the imagery of vast announcing waters.

Stroke Order

浩 hào