红

红 · hóng

red, vermillion; blush, flush

Entry ↗

Meanings & readings

Meaning & readings

red, vermillion; blush, flush

Mandarin
hóng
Cantonese
hung4

Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.

Form & structure

Writing & identity

Unicode
U+7EA2
Radical
纟 · 120
Strokes
6 · Unihan
Residual
3

Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.

Stroke order

6 strokes
红
Strokes
6
Convention
PRC · Make Me a Hanzi

6 strokes in writing order. Play to watch them, or Step through one at a time.

Modern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.

Graphical structure

⿰纟工(G)
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 红

Character connections

No reverse component match in this collection.

Sentence context · 1 matches

她穿了一件红旗袍。

She wore a red cheongsam.
Source, contributors & licenses

Mandarin: Tatoeba #402896 · Original contributor: FeuDRenais · Text editors: GlossaMatik · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log · Current owner: GlossaMatik
English: Tatoeba #7235415 · Original contributor: dcampbell · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log · Current owner: sundown

Source text unchanged. Original contributor and text editors are credited from the source log, separately from the current owner.

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History & distinctions

Related forms

Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.

Sources & reference

Evidence & next depth

Source editions & exact scope ↗
Retained Unihan properties
kMandarin
hóng
kCantonese
hung4
kDefinition
red, vermillion; blush, flush
kTotalStrokes
6
kRSUnicode
120'.3
kTraditionalVariant
U+7D05
kTGH
2013:589

Readings across dictionaries

Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
gōng 0382.020 · hóng 0462.040
Small numbers locate dictionary entries; 粵 introduces Cantonese. Includes rare or historical readings. Source notation ↗

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Sentences in context

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Structure & connections

0.10
432dictionary records using 红1forms using this shape0attributed sound links
⿰ Left / right

Shape description
纟 beside 工 · the shape used in China
Source notation ^⿰纟工$(G)
BabelStone · 2025-06-27. Encoded shape and region tags; graphical analysis does not establish historical function.

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Retained descriptions & scope

^⿰纟工$(G)

All alternatives are retained. Only the first description drives component search and graphical links. Counts describe this snapshot, not frequency. Evidence and method.