瀚

hàn

adjective

Meanings

HSK 7-9

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.

HSK 7-9

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