Jisho

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21 strokes
Radical:
cart, car
Parts:
Variants:
roar, thunder, boom resound
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
2438 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 轟音 【ゴウオン】 thunderous roar, roaring sound
  • 轟々 【ゴウゴウ】 thundering, roaring, rumbling, booming
  • 囂々 【ゴウゴウ】 loud (criticism, protest, etc.), noisy, clamorous, boisterous, uproarious, fierce
  • 非難轟々 【ヒナンゴウゴウ】 loud criticism, torrent of criticism, fierce denouncement (from many people), uproarious outcry

Kun reading compounds

  • 轟かす 【とどろかす】 to make (a thundering sound), to let resound, to make (one's name, etc.) widely known, to make (one's heart) pound, to throb, to thump
  • 轟く 【とどろく】 to roar, to thunder, to boom, to rumble, to resound, to reverberate, to become well known, to become famous, to pound (of one's heart), to throb, to palpitate

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
hong1
Korean:
goeng

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4643 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2939 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3425 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2402 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
38577 Morohashi
5991 New Nelson (John Haig)
2729 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2760 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
7c14.2 The Kanji Dictionary
2-7-14 SKIP code
5055.6 Four corner code
1-25-76 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8f5f Unicode hex code