hóng
red
Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 工 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*gˤoŋ | huwng | hóng | pink |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 48.2941% of movies
790th most common character in movies
502nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7D05 |
Shuowen | “紅,帛赤白色。从糸,工聲。” |
Sources
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