洪水
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flood | water; river | ||
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洪 | 水 |
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洪水
- flood (usually disastrous overflow from a body of water); flooding; floodwater
- 洪水芒芒,禹敷下土方。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]
- From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
- Hóngshuǐ mángmáng, Yǔ fū xià tǔ fāng. [Pinyin]
- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
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洪 | 水 |
こう Grade: S |
すい > ずい Grade: 1 |
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- flood
- 2015 September 14, Kaori Shoji, “When disaster strikes in Japan, keep calm and carry a diaper”, in The Japan Times[1], retrieved 2023-04-11:
- The Japanese disaster comes in many forms, and saigai include tensai (天災, literally, heaven-sent disasters — i.e., natural ones) like jishin (地震, earthquakes), kōzui (洪水, floods) and kaji (火事, fires).
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洪 | 水 |
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洪 | 水 |
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洪水