hóng
rainbow
Phonosemantic compound. 虫 represents the meaning and 工 represents the sound.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 虹
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
rainbow | ||
rainbow | ||
Changhong (brand) | ||
iris (of an eye) | ||
neon lamp (loanword) |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*m-kˤoŋ | huwng | hóng | rainbow |
*kˤroŋ-s | kaewngH | jiàng | rainbow |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.6430% of movies
2608th most common character in movies
2176th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+8679 |
Shuowen | “虹，螮蝀也。狀似蟲。从虫，工聲。《明堂》、《月令》曰：‘虹始見。’” |
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