豪 – overpowering, great, powerful

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The kanji 豪 means overpowering, great, powerful, excelling, Australia. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is ゴウ (gou); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is えら.い (erai). It is written with 14 strokes, under radical 豕 (no. 152).

Stroke order

Stroke order from KanjiVG. Practise others with the stroke order lookup.

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	ゴウ	gou
Kun’yomi	えら.い	erai

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 豕 (Kangxi radical 152). Components: 口・亠・冖・豕.

Words using 豪

豪華ごうかextravagant富豪ふごうwealthy person

Example sentences

何と豪華な家々でしょう。

What splendid houses they are!

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その大富豪は貧しい少年として生涯を始めた。

The millionaire began life as a poor boy.

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Kanji with the same radical

象豚

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