豪 means “mighty, lavish, Australia”

ごう · gou

Also: overpowering, great, powerful, excelling

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

えらい

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ゴウ

JLPT N1 · Taught in secondary school · 14 strokes

The story

The top of 高, tall, over a pig (豕): picture a towering wild boar with its bristles up. 豪 is overpowering: 豪華 is lavish, 豪雨 a torrential downpour, a 富豪 a tycoon, and in headlines 豪 means Australia.

Used in 豪華 (gouka, luxurious), 豪雨 (gouu, torrential rain), and 富豪 (fugou, tycoon)

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