The flood caused a lot of damage.
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洪水
hóng shuǐ
HSK 3.0 · 6HSK 2.0 · 6
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hóng shuǐ · hung4 seoi2 (Jyutping)
- deluge; flood
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Character breakdown
洪
- Meaning
- vast, immense; flood, deluge
- Radical
- 氵
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- ⿰氵共
- Cangjie
- ETC
- Four-corner
- 3418.1
水
- Meaning
- water, liquid, lotion, juice
- Radical
- 水
- Strokes
- 4
- Components
- ⿻亅？
- Cangjie
- E
- Four-corner
- 1223.0
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Example sentences
People were evacuated because of the flood.
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