洪亮
hóng liàng · HSK 7
loud and clear
📢🔔 洪 (vast, flood) + 亮 (bright) = a voice as vast and bright as a flood — loud, clear, resonant
洪 carries the sense of vast or flooding, and 亮 means bright or clear. Together they describe a sound that fills a space the way a flood fills a valley: big, ringing, and easy to hear.
亮 — top 亠 + 口 + legs 儿
亮 originally depicted a person (儿) standing on a high platform (亠+口) where light reaches, conveying the idea of brightness from an elevated, open place. Over time it generalized to mean 'bright, light, clear,' and by extension 'loud/clear' for sounds.