鸿 (hóng): eastern bean goose, great

鸿 (hóng) is a Chinese character meaning “eastern bean goose.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), with radical (bird). It ranks #3696 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).

Native pronunciation
HSK 7-9Radical: bird11 strokesFrequency #3696

Definitions

  1. eastern bean goose
  2. great

Stroke Order

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Words & Compounds

Common Compounds

WordPinyinMeaning
鸿hóng gōu(fig.) gulf
鸿hóng yùnvariant of 紅運|红运[hong2 yun4]
鸿huáng fēi hóngWong Fei-hung (1847-1925), martial arts master
鸿hóng mén yànHongmen feast
鸿hóng húswan
鸿yuǎn fāng lái hóngletter from afar (literary)
鸿hóng tú dà jìimportant large scale project
鸿nà hóng shūBook of Nahum
鸿qīng yú hóng máolight as a goose feather (idiom)
鸿lái hóngincoming letter (literary)
鸿lái hóng qù yànlit. the goose comes, the swallow goes (idiom)
鸿hóng hǎiHon Hai Precision Industry Company, Taiwan technology company, aka Foxconn
鸿fēi hóngswan goose
鸿lǐ hóng zhāngLi Hung-chang or Li Hongzhang (1823-1901), Qing dynasty general, politician and diplomat
鸿hóng máo tài shānlit. light as a goose feather, heavy as Mt Tai (idiom)
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Total compounds
38
As first character
24
As last character
38
As middle character

鸿 appears in 37 compound words: 38 as the first character, 24 as the last, and 38 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.

Idioms & Chengyu (7)

鸿āihóngbiànyěHSK 7+

a land of wailing and despair; land swarming with disaster victims; disaster victims moaning everywhere

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鸿fēi hóng tà xuěHSK 6+

see 雪泥鴻爪|雪泥鸿爪[xue3 ni2 hong2 zhao3]

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鸿fēi hóng xuě zhǎoHSK 7+

see 雪泥鴻爪|雪泥鸿爪[xue3 ni2 hong2 zhao3]

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鸿qīngyúhóngmáoHSK 3+

to be worthless (or trashy, valueless, not worth a brass farthing, good for nothing, of no worth)

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鸿tài shān hóng máoHSK 7+

as weighty as Mt Tai, as light as a feather (refers to death)

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鸿xuě ní hóng zhǎoHSK 7+

a goose's footprint in the snow; vestiges of the past (idiom); the fleeting nature of human life (idiom)

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Showing 6 of 7 idioms containing 鸿.

Example Sentences

AI-Generated

老师教我们鸿字的发音和笔顺。

lǎo shī jiào wǒ men hóng zì de fā yīn hé bǐ shùn .

The teacher taught us the pronunciation and stroke order of the character "Hong."

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鸿 méng zhì háng wèn jiè dēng lù huá wéi shāng chéng , xīn chē dìng wèi . . .

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. . . guǎng dōng dēng dǐng quán guó zuì ài fā hóng bāo shěng fèn 鸿 méng zhì háng zūn jiè wěi zhuāng chē pù guāng yuè zhī àn miàn . . .

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辉达GTC将秀新品 台积、鸿海等营运进补

huī dá jiāng xiù xīn pǐn tái jī 鸿 hǎi děng yíng yùn jìn bǔ

NVIDIA to Showcase New Products at GTC; TSMC, Foxconn to Benefit from Increased Operations

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qiē rù shí tǐ shì chǎng 鸿 hǎi yǒu wàng tōng chī dà dān

OpenAI Enters Physical AI Market; Foxconn Poised to Secure Major Contracts

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鸿海布局印度新进度!携手HCL建封测厂 斥...

鸿 hǎi bù jú yìn dù xīn jìn dù ! xié shǒu jiàn fēng cè hǎn chì . . .

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Character Family

Frequently Asked Questions

What does 鸿 (hóng) mean in Chinese?
鸿 (hóng) primarily means "eastern bean goose." It is classified as HSK Level 7-9, making it an expert-level character. It ranks #3696 in character frequency.
How many strokes does 鸿 have?
鸿 is written with 11 strokes. The correct stroke order matters for recognition and handwriting speed — practice with the animated guide above to build proper technique.
What is the radical of 鸿?
The radical associated with 鸿 is 鸟 (bird). This radical appears in many characters related to bird.
What are common words containing 鸿?
Common words with 鸿 include: 鸿沟 (hóng gōu, "(fig.) gulf"); 鸿运 (hóng yùn, "variant of 紅運|红运[hong2 yun4]"); 黄飞鸿 (huáng fēi hóng, "Wong Fei-hung (1847-1925), martial arts master"); 鸿门宴 (hóng mén yàn, "Hongmen feast"); 鸿鹄 (hóng hú, "swan"). There are over 37 compound words containing this character.
Is 鸿 the same in simplified and traditional Chinese?
No. The simplified form is 鸿 and the traditional form is 鴻.

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Character data sourced from Unihan (Unicode Consortium), SUBTLEX-CH frequency corpus (Cai & Brysbaert, 2010), and Make Me a Hanzi (stroke data). Collocation strength measured via NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information). Verified by the HanziFeed linguistics team.

HSK classification follows the HSK 3.0 Standard (Center for Language Education and Cooperation, CLEC, 2022 revision). Idiom data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Data last verified: March 2026.