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U+7D05, 紅
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7D05

[U+7D04]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+7D06]

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 120, +3, 9 strokes, cangjie input 女火一 (VFM), four-corner 21910, composition )

Derived characters

  • 𠸣 𢞃 𣖘 𠮅 𬻤 𦁾 𬕡 𬗻

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 916, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27243
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1343, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3363, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+7D05

Chinese

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Glyph origin

More information Historical forms of the character 紅, Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) ...

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡoːŋ): semantic (silk) + phonetic (OC *koːŋ).

Etymology

(OC *l'uːŋ, “red”) could be a variant of (OC *ɡoːŋ) (Schuessler, 2007). May be related to (OC *kroːŋs, *ɡoːŋ, “rainbow”).

Originally referred to lighter shades of red; gradually replaced (chì, “red”) as the basic color term for "red".

Pronunciation 1


Note:
  • è̤ng - vernacular;
  • hùng - literary ("successful;
  • red bunting").

  • Dialectal data
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Definitions

  1. red
       hóng   red (color)
       hóngchá   black tea (literally, “red tea”)
       hóngbāo   red packet
    綠色盲绿色盲   hónglǜ sèmáng   red-green colour blindness
  2. (colloquial) popular; in vogue
       fānhóng   to be popular again
    邁克爾·傑克遜沒有以前那麼 [MSC, trad.]
    迈克尔·杰克逊没有以前那么 [MSC, simp.]
    Màikè'ěr Jiékèxùn méiyǒu yǐqián nàme hóng le. [Pinyin]
    Michael Jackson is not as popular as he used to be.
  3. the red clothes and bunting used on festive occasions
       hóng   to drape in red silk as a sign of honor or for festivity
  4. festive occasion; wedding
    白喜事白喜事   hóngbáixǐshì   weddings and funerals
  5. (figurative) revolutionary; Communist; Red
       hóngjūn   Red army
    又專又专   yòuhóngyòuzhuān   to have a procommunist mindset along with professional skill
  6. (business, finance) bonus; extra dividend
       fēnhóng   distribute or draw dividends
  7. (literary) flower
       cánhóng   fallen petals
  8. (literary) beautiful woman
  9. (literary) blood
       luòhóng   to bleed as an indication of a broken virginity
  10. (euphemistic, Cantonese, Hakka) blood tofu
    [Cantonese]   zyu1 hung4 [Jyutping]   pig blood tofu
    [Cantonese]   gai1 hung4 [Jyutping]   chicken blood tofu
  11. a surname, Hong

Synonyms

  • (red):

Compounds

Pronunciation 2


Note:
  • kang - vernacular;
  • kong - literary.

Definitions

  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) Substitute character for (gōng).
  2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) Substitute character for (gōng).
       gōng   the feminine arts (e.g. needlework, sewing, embroidery)
  3. Placename in the State of Lu during the Spring and Autumn Period in Chinese history, northeast of modern Tai'an, Shandong.

Compounds

Pronunciation 3


Definitions

  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) Substitute character for (jiàng).

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