鴻: large bird, wild goose

JLPT level N1
17 strokes
Radical 鳥

Also large, great, powerful, prosperous

Readings

On’yomi

コウ
ゴウ

Kun’yomi

おおとり
ひしくい
おおがり

On’yomi and kun’yomi?

On’yomi are readings that came from Chinese, written here in katakana. Kun’yomi are native Japanese readings, written in hiragana. Which one is used depends on the word: kanji in compounds often take an on’yomi, and a kanji standing alone often takes a kun’yomi.

Stroke order

0.5×1×2×

Strokes from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Words

鴻 appears in no word in JMdict’s common-word edition, so no examples are shown.

Keep exploring

Same radical. KANJIDIC2 files these kanji under radical 鳥 (no. 196), like 鴻.

What is a radical?

Dictionaries file every kanji under one of 214 radicals, a component used for looking it up. A shared radical often hints at a shared theme, but not always, and it says nothing certain about a character’s history. A radical can change shape inside a kanji, as 水 becomes 氵.

Additional detailsSchool grade, frequency, Unicode and sources

School grade: Jinmeiyō (used in names)
Newspaper frequency: 2,111 of 2,500
Classical radical: 鳥 no. 196
Unicode: U+9D3B

School grade comes from the Japanese school curriculum. Frequency is the rank among the 2,500 most common kanji in newspapers. Neither is a JLPT level.

Sources for this entry

KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0): meanings, on’yomi, kun’yomi, stroke count, school grade, newspaper frequency, radical
Jonathan Waller's JLPT kanji lists (CC BY): JLPT level
KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0): stroke order