虹 · hóng
rainbow
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
rainbow
- Mandarin
- hóng
- Cantonese
- hung4
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 虹 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
Go deeperJisho ↗Wiktionary ↗
Korean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
Go deeperNaver Hanja ↗Wiktionary ↗
Reading sources explained
- 홍
- KS X 1001 (0) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+8679
- Radical
- 虫 · 142
- Strokes
- 9 · Unihan
- Residual
- 3
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
9 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 虹
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Component roles · attributed
- 工 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 工聲
Line 7672 · ⿰虫工 · 工聲 · source reference 4711500
Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- huwng · 戸公 反切 · #25
- Middle Chinese
- kuwngH · 古送 反切 · #2094
- Middle Chinese
- kaewngH · 古巷 反切 · #2141
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 260 · huwng = 通開一平東匣 · kuwngH = 通開一去東見 · kaewngH = 江開二去江見
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- hóng
- kCantonese
- hung4
- kDefinition
- rainbow
- kTotalStrokes
- 9
- kRSUnicode
- 142.3
- kGradeLevel
- 3
- kTGH
- 2013:1497
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- hóng,hòng,gòng 42834.080
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- hóng 0462.020 · jiàng 0562.040
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- hóng 138.020 · jiàng 167.150
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- hóng粵hung4 jiàng粵hung4
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 戶公 古送 古巷
- Kangxi positions
- 1076.400
- Guangyun positions
- 030.38 342.09 345.31
- GSR references
- 1172j
- Cangjie
- LIM
- Four-corner
- 5111.0