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hóng

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hóng Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
hóng | hong2
English translation
a species of wild swan; vast

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About hóng

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Number of strokes

17

Traditional form

hóng

Contains the radical

niǎo

Part of speech

Non-morpheme / 非语素字 Fēi yǔsù zì

Learning hint

bird

Etymology of hóng

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

江鳥

Semantic compound

niǎo

Phonetic compound

Jiāng

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. diǎo represents the meaning and Jiāng represents the sound. Simplified form of hóng .

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Words with hóng

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
鸿 hóng great hóng
鸿沟 hóng gōu chasm鴻溝
鸿运 hóng yùn good luck鴻運
鸿门宴 Hóng mén Yàn Feast at Hongmen鴻門宴
黄飞鸿 Huáng Fēi hóng Wong Fei Hung (1847-1924), famous martial artist and revolutionary黃飛鴻
李鸿章 Lǐ Hóng zhāng Li Hung-chang or Li Hongzhang (1823-1901), Qing dynasty general, politician and diplomat李鴻章
徐悲鸿 Xú Bēi hóng Xu Beihong (1895-1953), famous European trained painter and influential art teacher徐悲鴻
惊鸿 jīng hóng lithe驚鴻
鸿雁 hóng yàn (bird species of China) swan goose (Anser cygnoides)鴻雁
辜鸿铭 Gū Hóng míng Ku Hung-ming or Gu Hongming (1857-1928), Malaysian man of letters, highly regarded for his literary works written mostly in English, and known for his monarchist views辜鴻銘
鸿福 hóng fú good fortune鴻福
哀鸿遍野 aī hóng biàn yě starving people fill the land哀鴻遍野
鸿图 hóng tú vast plan鴻圖
鸿鹄 hóng hú swan鴻鵠
轻于鸿毛 qīng yú hóng máo unimportant輕於鴻毛
来鸿 lái hóng incoming letter (literary)來鴻
燕雀安知鸿鹄之志 yàn què ān zhī hóng hú zhī zhì lit. can the sparrow and swallow know the will of the great swan? (idiom)燕雀安知鴻鵠之志
雪泥鸿爪 xuě ní hóng zhǎo a goose's footprint in the snow雪泥鴻爪
崔鸿 Cuī Hóng Cui Hong, historian at the end of Wei of the Northern Dynasties 北魏 Běi Wèi 崔鴻
泰山鸿毛 Tài shān hóng máo as weighty as Mt Tai, as light as a feather (refers to death)泰山鴻毛
鸿毛泰山 hóng máo Tài Shān lit. light as a goose feather, heavy as Mt Tai (idiom)鴻毛泰山

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