Dictionary › 虹

虹

hóng

HSK 5 Character

What 虹 means

1. rainbow

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 虹

• 虹桥hóng qiáoarched bridge
• 虹口区Hóng kǒu QūHongkou district, central Shanghai
• 虹吸hóng xī(lit. and fig.) to siphon
• 虹彩hóng cǎiiridescence; iris (of the eye)
• 虹膜hóng móiris (of an eye)
• 虹吸管hóng xī guǎnsiphon
• 虹彩病毒hóng cǎi bìng dúiridovirus
• 虹桥机场Hóng qiáo jī chǎngHongqiao Airport (Shanghai)
• 虹鳟hóng zūnrainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)

Words containing 虹

• 彩虹cǎi hóngrainbow
• 长虹Cháng hóngChanghong (brand)
• 霓虹灯ní hóng dēng(loanword) neon lights
• 霓虹ní hóng(loanword) neon lights (abbr. for 霓虹灯; (literary) rainbow
• 海虹hǎi hóngmussel
• 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
• 黄宾虹Huáng Bīn hóngHuang Binhong (1865-1955), art historian and literati painter
• 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…
• 气贯长虹qì guàn cháng hóngspirit reaches to the rainbow; full of noble aspiration and daring
• 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)
• 霓虹国Ní hóng guó(slang) Japan (loanword from the Japanese word for Japan, 日本 "Nihon")
• 棕尾虹雉zōng wěi hóng zhì(bird species of China) Himalayan monal (Lophophorus impejanus)
• 绿尾虹雉lǜ wěi hóng zhì(bird species of China) Chinese monal (Lophophorus lhuysii)
• 白尾梢虹雉bái wěi shāo hóng zhì(bird species of China) Sclater's monal (Lophophorus sclateri)

Characters built on 工

These share the phonetic component 工 (gōng), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 空kōngempty; air; sky
• 功gōngmeritorious deed or service; achievement; result
• 红hóngred; popular; revolutionary
• 贡gòngto offer tribute; tribute; gifts
• 攻gōngto attack; to accuse; to study
• 巩gǒng(bound form) to fix in place; to make firm and secure
• 汞gǒngmercury (chemistry)
• 讧hòngstrife; disorder; rioting

Characters that look like 虹

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 标biāomark; sign; label
• 射shèto shoot; to launch; to allude to
• 缸gāngjar; vat; classifier for loads of laundry
• 姑gūpaternal aunt; husband's sister; husband's mother (old)
• 耙bàa hoe; to harrow
• 衄nǜto bleed from the nose (or from the ears, gums etc); fig. to be defeated

Sounds the same

Read hóng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 红red; popular; revolutionary
• 洪flood; big; great
• 宏great; magnificent; macro (computing)
• 鸿eastern bean goose; great; large
• 弘great; liberal
• 闳big; gate
• 泓clear; vast and deep; classifier for a body of clear water
• 浤sound of water surging
• 竑large; to estimate
• 翃to swarm (of insects)
• 纮cord for hat; vast
• 黉school