Chinese symbol for “deluge”
洪水
hóng shuǐ
deluge; flood
The closest CC-CEDICT match for deluge is 洪水 (hóng shuǐ), defined as: deluge; flood.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “deluge”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 滔 | tāo | (bound form) to inundate; deluge; torrent |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 洪水.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 洪灾 (洪災) | hóng zāi | flood |
| 防洪 | fáng hóng | flood control; flood prevention |
| 洪流 | hóng liú | a powerful current; a flood (often fig., e.g. a flood of ideas) |
| 抗洪 | kàng hóng | to fight a flood |
| 山洪 | shān hóng | deluge caused by torrential water flow off a mountain after heavy rain or snowmelt |
| 水平 | shuǐ píng | horizontal; level; a standard; a level (of ability, development etc) |
| 水果 | shuǐ guǒ | fruit |
| 水泥 | shuǐ ní | cement; measure word: 袋 (dài) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “deluge”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.