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汪洋 (wāng yáng): meaning and stroke order

汪洋 (wāng yáng) means vast body of water, CL:片.

汪洋

Simplified
汪洋
Traditional
汪洋 (same form)
Pinyin
wāng yáng

Stroke order of 汪洋

汪

  • Wāng surname Wang
  • wāng expanse of water; ooze
  • 7 strokes

Stroke by stroke

洋

  • yáng ocean; vast
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 汪洋

  1. wāng yáng
    • vast body of water
    • CL:片[pian4]

Radicals of the characters

汪
Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 7 strokes · 氵 on the left, 王 on the right
洋
Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 9 strokes · 氵 on the left, 羊 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

汪洋 in our stories

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  • 四千多年前，黄河发了一场大洪水，房屋被冲走，田地变成了一片汪洋。

    sìqiān duō nián qián Huáng Hé fā le yì cháng dà hóngshuǐ fángwū bèi chōng zǒu tiándì biànchéng le yí piàn wāngyáng

    More than four thousand years ago the Yellow River flooded: houses were swept away and the fields became a vast sheet of water.

    From the story Yu the Great tames the flood HSK 6

Stories using 汪洋

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).