hóng

red

Simplified form of . Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
纟 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

silk

is a component form of .

工 sound component

  Sound component

gōng

  

work

Evolution

红 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
红 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
红 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
红 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

hóng

red, vermillion; blush, flush; red; popular; revolutionary; bonus

() 

Hóng

surname Hong

Most common words with 红
Freq.
Word
Meaning

red

红色

red (color)

红包

kickback

粉红

pink

红灯

red light

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 48.2941% of movies

790th most common character in movies

502nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Traditional

Unicode

U+7EA2


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