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鸿

hóng

Character Traditional 鴻

What 鸿 means

1. eastern bean goose
2. great
3. large

Words starting with 鸿

• 鸿沟hóng gōu(fig.) gulf; chasm; wide gap; (originally) the Hong Canal in Henan, which in ancient…
• 鸿雁hóng yàn(bird species of China) swan goose (Anser cygnoides)
• 鸿海Hóng hǎiHon Hai Precision Industry Company, Taiwan technology company, aka Foxconn
• 鸿蒙hóng méng(literary) primordial chaos (the undifferentiated state of the universe before creation)
• 鸿门宴Hóng mén yànHongmen feast; (fig.) banquet set up with the aim of murdering a guest…
• 鸿图大计hóng tú dà jìimportant large scale project
• 鸿毛泰山hóng máo Tài Shānlit. light as a goose feather, heavy as Mt Tai (idiom)…
• 鸿喜菇hóng xǐ gūbeech mushroom (Hypsizygus tessulatus), usually referring to the brown cultivated variety
• 鸿毛泰岱hóng máo tài dàilight as a goose feather, heavy as Mt Tai (idiom); of no consequence to one person, a…
• 鸿胪寺hóng lú sì(archaic) office in charge of ceremony and protocol
• 鸿鹄hóng húswan; person with noble aspirations
• 鸿运hóng yùnvariant of 红运
• 鸿图hóng túvariant of 宏图
• 鸿福hóng fúvariant of 洪福

Words containing 鸿

• 李鸿章Lǐ Hóng zhāngLi Hung-chang or Li Hongzhang (1823-1901), Qing dynasty general, politician and diplomat
• 惊鸿jīng hónggraceful (esp. of female posture); lithe
• 徐悲鸿Xú Bēi hóngXu Beihong (1895-1953), famous European-trained painter and influential art teacher
• 黄飞鸿Huáng Fēi hóngWong Fei-hung (1847-1925), martial arts master
• 来鸿lái hóngincoming letter (literary)
• 波鸿Bō hóngBochum (city in Germany)
• 纳鸿Nà hóngNahum
• 飞鸿fēi hóngswan goose; (fig.) letter; message
• 辜鸿铭Gū Hóng míngKu Hung-ming or Gu Hongming (1857–1928), Malaysian writer known for his English-language…
• 那鸿书Nà hóng shūBook of Nahum
• 哀鸿遍野āi hóng biàn yělit. plaintive whine of geese (idiom); fig. land swarming with disaster victims…
• 泰山鸿毛Tài shān hóng máoas weighty as Mt Tai, as light as a feather (refers to death)
• 轻于鸿毛qīng yú hóng máolight as a goose feather (idiom); trifling; unimportant
• 远方来鸿yuǎn fāng lái hóngletter from afar (literary)
• 李鸿章杂碎Lǐ Hóng zhāng zá suichop suey (American Chinese dish)
• 来鸿去燕lái hóng qù yànlit. the goose comes, the swallow goes (idiom); fig. always on the move
• 崔鸿Cuī HóngCui Hong, historian at the end of Wei of the Northern Dynasties 北魏
• 雪泥鸿爪xuě ní hóng zhǎoa goose's footprint in the snow; vestiges of the past (idiom)…
• 大鸿胪dà hóng lúminister responsible for foreign relations and court protocol in imperial China
• 燕雀安知鸿鹄之志yàn què ān zhī hóng hú zhī zhìlit. can the sparrow and swallow know the will of the great swan? (idiom)…
• 燕雀焉知鸿鹄之志yàn què yān zhī hóng gǔ zhī zhìlit. can the sparrow and swallow know the will of the great swan? (idiom)…
• 飞鸿踏雪fēi hóng tà xuěsee 雪泥鸿爪
• 飞鸿雪爪fēi hóng xuě zhǎosee 雪泥鸿爪

Characters that look like 鸿

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

• 梅méiplum; plum flower; Japanese apricot (Prunus mume)
• 陷xiànpitfall; trap; to get stuck
• 绳shéngrope
• 绵miánsilk floss; continuous; soft
• 堀kūcave; hole
• 旌jīngbanner; make manifest

Sounds the same

Read hóng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 红red; popular; revolutionary
• 虹rainbow
• 洪flood; big; great
• 宏great; magnificent; macro (computing)
• 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