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彩虹

cǎi hóng

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Measure word 道

彩虹 (cǎi hóng) means "rainbow". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 彩虹 means

1. rainbow

The characters in 彩虹

• 彩cǎi(bright) color; variety; applause
• 虹hóngrainbow

Example sentences

• 彩虹桥有多长？
  How long is the Rainbow Bridge?
• 彩虹有七种颜色。
  A rainbow has seven colors.
• 彩虹是一种自然现象。
  Cǎihóng shì yīzhǒng zìránxiànxiàng.
  A rainbow is a natural phenomenon.
• 你见到今天早上的彩虹了吗？
  Nǐ jiàndào jīntiān zǎoshang de cǎihóng le ma?
  Did you see the rainbow this morning?
• 彩虹是自然界最美的现象之一。
  Cǎihóng shì zìránjiè zuì Měidí xiànxiàng zhīyī.
  A rainbow is one of the most beautiful phenomena of nature.
• 喏，快看快看！那有一道巨大的彩虹！
  Nuò, kuài kàn kuài kàn! Nà yǒu yī dào jùdà de cǎihóng!
  Oh, look, look! There's a big rainbow over there!

Words starting with 彩虹

• 彩虹屁cǎi hóng pì(neologism c. 2017) (slang) over-the-top praise
• 彩虹旗cǎi hóng qírainbow flag, aka LGBT pride flag
• 彩虹族群cǎi hóng zú qúnthe LGBT+ community
• 彩虹蜂虎cǎi hóng fēng hǔ(bird species of China) rainbow bee-eater (Merops ornatus)
• 彩虹行动cǎi hóng xíng dòngthe two mass scuttling operations carried out by the German navy: the scuttling of the…
• 彩虹鹦鹉cǎi hóng yīng wǔ(bird species of China) coconut lorikeet (Trichoglossus haematodus)
• 彩虹吸蜜鹦鹉cǎi hóng xī mì yīng wǔ(bird species of China) rainbow lorikeet (Trichoglossus moluccanus)

Where 彩虹 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Nature, Landscape & Wild Animals (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read cǎi hóng correctly.
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