瀚

hàn

adjective

Meanings

沙漠浩瀚无边，一直延到天边。

Shāmò hàohàn wú biān, yìzhí yán dào tiān biān.

The desert stretches vast and boundless to the horizon.

面对浩瀚的星海，他感到自己很渺小。

Miànduì hàohàn de xīnghǎi, tā gǎndào zìjǐ hěn miǎoxiǎo.

Facing the vast sea of stars, he felt very small.

usage

瀚 almost always appears doubled with 浩 as 浩瀚 (vast, immense), used for oceans, deserts, the sky, or a huge body of knowledge.

radical

氵 shuǐ

water

The water radical in left-side form. It points to the original sense of a vast sea, from which 瀚 grew into the general idea of anything boundless.

phonetic

翰 hàn

writing brush; lofty

Provides the sound directly: 翰 hàn gives 瀚 its exact reading hàn, a clean phonetic match with no tone drift.

瀚 hàn