Meaning
bonus; popular; red; revolutionary
Chinese: 红色，也表示受欢迎或革命象征。
Hear the Four Tones
The same syllable “hong” becomes a different word in each tone. 红 is the 2nd tone. Tap any tone to hear a native voice and see its pitch shape.
Stroke Order
Tap Animate to watch the strokes in order, or Practice to trace it yourself.
Common Words
- 红色hóng sèred (color); revolutionary
- 红茶hóng cháblack tea
- 红酒hóng jiǔred wine
- 西红柿xī hóng shìtomato
- 红包hóng bāomoney wrapped in red as a gift; bonus payment; kickback; bribe
Example Sentence
秋天的枫叶红得像火。Qiū tiān de fēng yè hóng de xiàng huǒ.In autumn the maple leaves are as red as fire.
秋天Qiū tiānautumn的deof枫叶fēng yèmaple leaf红hóngred得de(verb complement)像xiàngto resemble火huǒfire。
Go deeper
Where this character comes from
The silk radical 纟 (meaning) plus 工 (gōng, sound): the colour of dyed silk — ‘red’. Simplified from 紅.
A way to remember it
Silk (纟) + the sound 工 — red.
Easy to confuse with
- 江‘River’: shares the 工 sound, but with the water radical 氵.