宏 (hóng): great, magnificent, macro (computing)
宏 (hóng) is a Chinese character meaning “great.” Classified as HSK Level 6 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 宀 (semantic) and 厷 (phonetic). It ranks #1781 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 宏 building. Its radical form 宀 (roof) appears in many related characters such as 客 (kè, guest, customer), 家 (jiā, home, family), 它 (tā, it).
Definitions
- great
- magnificent
- macro (computing)
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 宏
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 宏伟 | hóng wěi | grand |
| 宏图 | hóng tú | major undertaking |
| 宏观 | hóng guān | macro- |
| 恢宏 | huī hóng | vast |
| 宏愿 | hóng yuàn | great aspiration |
| 宏亮 | hóng liàng | variant of 洪亮[hong2 liang4] |
| 宏观经济学 | hóng guān jīng jì xué | macroeconomics |
| 宏都拉斯 | hóng dū lā sī | Honduras (Tw) |
| 宏观世界 | hóng guān shì jiè | macrocosm |
| 宏观经济 | hóng guān jīng jì | macroeconomic |
| 王力宏 | wáng lì hóng | Wang Lee-Hom (1976-), Taiwanese-American singer |
| 马克宏 | mǎ kè hóng | (Tw) Emmanuel Macron (1977-), president of France from 2017 |
| 宽宏大度 | kuān hóng dà dù | magnanimous |
| 宽宏大量 | kuān hóng dà liàng | magnanimous (idiom) |
| 宏观调控 | hóng guān tiáo kòng | macro-control |
宏 appears in 31 compound words: 58 as the first character, 23 as the last, and 19 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 宏 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (2)
Example Sentences
了解宏字的来源，有助于理解中国文化。
le xiè hóng zì de lái yuán , yǒu zhù yú lǐ xiè zhōng guó wén huā .
Understanding the origin of the character "宏" helps to comprehend Chinese culture.
林柏宏春节变散财童子!打麻将天天输钱 想野生捕...
lín bǎi hóng chūn jié biàn sàn cái tóng zǐ ! dǎ má jiāng tiān tiān shū qián xiǎng yě shēng bǔ . . .
Lin Baihong became a boy with money during the Spring Festival! Playing mahjong loses money every day, I want to catch it wild...
宏利新加坡售出一份3亿美元人寿保单 破世纪...
hóng lì xīn jiā pō shòu chū yī fèn 3 yì měi yuán rén shòu bǎo dān pò shì jì . . .
Manulife Singapore sells a $300 million life insurance policy breaking the century...
宏福苑|管浩鸣关注收购尺价逾万元点计?黄伟...
hóng fú 苑 guǎn hào míng guān zhù shōu gòu chǐ jià yú wàn yuán diǎn jì ? huáng wěi . . .
Guan Haoming pays attention to the purchase price of more than 10,000 yuan? Huang Wei...
别让狭隘的人让你相信你的梦想过于宏大。
Bié ràng xiá'ài de rén ràng nǐ xiāngxìn nǐ de mèngxiǎng guòyú hóngdà.
Don't let narrow-minded people convince you that your dreams are too big.
伟宏结婚那天我有去，场面超盛大。
Wěi hóng jiéhūn nàtiān wǒ yǒu qù, chǎngmiàn chāo shèngdà.
I went to Wei-hong's wedding. It was huge.
欣赏生活中的小事，它们的总合很是宏大。
Xīnshǎng shēnghuó zhōng de xiǎoshì, tāmen de zǒnghé hěn shì hóngdà.
Appreciate the little things in life - they will bring you to a bigger end target.
宽宏大量是个宝; 与人无争结缘好 放下名利不烦恼; 心生欢喜不觉老.
Kuānhóngdàliàng shì gè bǎo; yǔ rén wú zhēng jiéyuán hǎo fàngxià mínglì bù fánnǎo; xīn shēng huānxǐ bù jiào lǎo.
Magnanimity is a great treasure; harmonious affinity with others is wonderful, Detachment from name and gain averts trouble; happiness makes older people feel young.
Character Family
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