Chinese symbol for “flood”
洪
hóng
flood; big; great
The closest CC-CEDICT match for flood is 洪 (hóng), defined as: flood; big; great.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “flood”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 水灾 (水災) | shuǐ zāi | flood; flood damage |
| 洪灾 (洪災) | hóng zāi | flood |
| 淹 | yān | to flood; to submerge |
| 大水 | dà shuǐ | flood |
| 淼 | miǎo | a flood; infinity |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 洪.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 洪水 | hóng shuǐ | deluge; flood |
| 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 |
See also: Japanese symbol for “flood”.
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.