Save Gender Masculine & Feminine Usage Chinese Scripts 洪涛, 宏涛, etc.(Chinese) 洪濤, 宏濤, etc.(Traditional Chinese) Pronounced Pron. KHUWNG-TOW [key·IPA] Meaning & History From Chinese 洪 (hóng) meaning "flood, deluge" or 宏 (hóng) meaning "wide, spacious, great, vast" combined with 涛 (tāo) meaning "large waves". Other character combinations can form this name as well.