虹 (hóng): rainbow
虹 (hóng) is a Chinese character meaning “rainbow.” Classified as HSK Level 6 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 虫 (semantic) and 工 (phonetic). It ranks #2128 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 虹 insect. Its radical form 虫 (insect) appears in many related characters such as 蛋 (dàn, egg), 虽 (suī, although), 虫 (chóng, insect).
Definitions
- rainbow
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 虹
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 霓虹灯noun | ní hóng dēng | (loanword) neon lights |
| 虹膜noun | hóng mó | iris (of an eye) |
| 虹吸verb | hóng xī | (lit. and fig.) to siphon |
| 霓虹noun | ní hóng | (loanword) neon lights (abbr. for 霓虹燈|霓虹灯) |
| 彩虹行动 | cǎi hóng xíng dòng | the two mass scuttling operations carried out by the German navy: the scuttling of the German fleet at Scapa Flow in ... |
| 虹口区 | hóng kǒu qū | Hongkou district, central Shanghai |
| 虹桥机场 | hóng qiáo jī chǎng | Hongqiao Airport (Shanghai) |
| 气贯长虹 | qì guàn cháng hóng | spirit reaches to the rainbow |
| 虹吸管 | hóng xī guǎn | siphon |
| 彩虹族群noun | cǎi hóng zú qún | the LGBT+ community |
| 虹彩病毒 | hóng cǎi bìng dú | iridovirus |
| 长虹noun | cháng hóng | Changhong (brand) |
| 海虹 | hǎi hóng | mussel |
| 霓虹国proper-noun | ní hóng guó | (slang) Japan (loanword from the Japanese word for Japan, 日本 "Nihon") |
| 黄宾虹 | huáng bīn hóng | Huang Binhong (1865-1955), art historian and literati painter |
虹 appears in 27 compound words: 33 as the first character, 22 as the last, and 44 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 虹 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (1)
Example Sentences
彩虹横跨天际，美丽壮观。
Cǎihóng héngkuà tiānjì, měilì zhuàngguān.
The rainbow spans the sky, beautiful and spectacular.
竹市长选举/高虹安对手出现?绿营批分化
zhú shì cháng xuǎn jǔ gāo hóng ān duì shǒu chū xiàn ? lǜ yíng pī fēn huà
Bamboo mayoral election/Gao Hongan's opponent appears? The green camp is differentiated
(新春走基层)春节假期上海虹桥国际机场口岸客流高位运行 外籍入境旅客...
( xīn chūn zǒu jī céng ) chūn jié jiǎ qī shàng hǎi hóng qiáo guó jì jī chǎng kǒu àn kè liú gāo wèi yùn háng wài jí rù jìng lǚ kè . . .
During the Spring Festival holiday, the passenger flow at Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport Port is running at a high level, and foreign inbound passengers are running at a high level...
手游《彩虹六号M》上线宣传视频
shǒu yóu cǎi hóng liù hào M shàng xiàn xuān chuán shì pín
The mobile game "Rainbow Six M" launched a promotional video
谁被虹口新春美到了?中外游客:超出片,太震撼!...
shéi bèi hóng kǒu xīn chūn měi dào le ? zhōng wài yóu kè chāo chū piān , tài zhèn hàn ! . . .
Who is beautiful by Hongkou New Year? Chinese and foreign tourists: beyond the film, too shocking!...
新春纳福迎新,就来凯德虹口商业中心,福气好物一站式..
xīn chūn nà fú yíng xīn , jiù lái kǎi dé hóng kǒu shāng yè zhōng xīn , fú qì hǎo wù yī zhàn shì . .
Welcome the New Year with blessings and good fortune at CapitaMall Hongkou—your one-stop destination for lucky charms and treasures.
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?
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!
Hey, look! Look! There's a massive rainbow!
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.
彩虹有七种颜色。
Cǎihóng yǒu qī zhǒng yánsè.
A rainbow has seven colors.
Character Family
Semantic Family — Characters sharing the 虫 (insect) component
Homophones — Characters pronounced hóng
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