瀑
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waterfall
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 18
- Radical
- 水 +15
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 瀑
- Common rank
- #3,309
- Unicode
- U+7011
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 瀑 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
Violent 暴 water 氵; 暴 also provides the pronunciation
How to remember it
waterfall · Heisig RSH #2773
水 water + 暴 violent
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 瀑
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 尼亚加拉瀑布 | Niagara Falls | |
| 维多利亚瀑布 | Victoria Falls or Mosi-oa-Tunya on the Zambesi River, between Zambia and Zimbabwe | |
| 黄果树大瀑布 | Huangguoshu falls, Anshun 安順|安顺[An1 shun4], Guizhou | |
| 尼加拉瀑布 | Niagara Falls (Tw) | |
| 黄果树瀑布 | Huangguoshu waterfalls, Anshun 安順|安顺[An1 shun4], Guizhou | |
| 洛皮塔瀑布 | Lawpita Falls on the Balu Chaung river, location of Myanmar's biggest hydroelectric plant | |
| 瀑布 | waterfall | |
| 飞瀑 | waterfall |