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红绿灯hóng lǜ dēng
traffic lights
Definitions
| Chinese > English | ||
| 红绿灯 | ||
| 1. Simplified form of 紅綠燈 | ||
| 紅綠燈 | hónglǜdēng | |
| 1. n. traffic light | ||
| Components | ||
| 红 | ||
| 1. Simplified form of 紅 | ||
| 紅 | hóng | |
| 1. red | ||
| 紅色 (hóngsè) - red (color) | ||
| 紅茶 (hóngchá) - black tea, lit=red tea | ||
| 紅包 (hóngbāo) - red packet | ||
| 紅綠.色盲 (hónglǜ sèmáng) - red-green colour blindness | ||
| 2. (colloquial) popular; in vogue | ||
| 翻紅 (fānhóng) - to be popular again | ||
| 邁克爾·傑克遜 沒有 以前 那麼 紅 了。 (Màikè'ěr Jiékèxùn méiyǒu yǐqián nàme hóng le.) - Michael Jackson is not as popular as he used to be. | ||
| 3. the red clothes and bunting used on festive occasions | ||
| 披紅 (pīhóng) - to drape in red silk as a sign of honor or for festivity | ||
| 4. festive occasion; wedding | ||
| 紅白喜事 (hóngbáixǐshì) - weddings and funerals | ||
| 5. (figurative) revolutionary; Communist; Red | ||
| 紅軍 (hóngjūn) - Red army | ||
| 又紅又專 (yòuhóngyòuzhuān) - to have a procommunist mindset along with professional skill | ||
| 6. (business, finance) bonus; extra dividend | ||
| 分紅 (fēnhóng) - distribute or draw dividends | ||
| 7. (literary) flower | ||
| 殘紅 (cánhóng) - fallen petals | ||
| 8. (literary) beautiful woman | ||
| 9. (literary) blood | ||
| 落紅 (luòhóng) - to bleed as an indication of a broken virginity | ||
| 10. (euphemism, Cantonese, Hakka) blood tofu | ||
| 豬紅 - pig blood tofu | ||
| 雞紅 - chicken blood tofu | ||
| Hong | ||
| 女紅gōng (nǚgōng) - the feminine arts (e.g. needlework, sewing, embroidery) | ||
| 11. (Placename in the State of Lu during the Spring and Autumn Period in Chinese history, northeast of modern Tai'an, Shandong.) | ||
| 绿 | ||
| 1. Simplified form of 綠 | ||
| 綠 | lǜ, lù | |
| 1. green | ||
| 綠色 - green (color) | ||
| 2. to become green | ||
| 3. (literary, only of hair) black and glossy (especially in a youthful-looking way) | ||
| 綠鬢 - black hair | ||
| 4. healthy; environmentally friendly; green | ||
| 綠 建築 - green building | ||
| 綠 住宅 - green home | ||
| 5. green leaves | ||
| 6. green field | ||
| 7. (zh-original, *籙) | ||
| 8. Alternative form of 菉 (name of a plant) | ||
| 9. (symbolic) Islam(ic); Muslim | ||
| 綠教 - (slang) Islam | ||
| 10. (politics) related to the pro-independence pan-Green coalition of Taiwan | ||
| 綠營 - Pro-Taiwan Independence camp | ||
| 11. (slang) to cuckold | ||
| Synonyms: 戴綠帽子 | ||
| 灯 | ||
| 1. Simplified form of 燈 | ||
| 燈 | dēng, dēn | |
| 1. lamp; light; lantern (for illumination) | ||
| 電燈 - electric light | ||
| 熄燈 - to turn off a light | ||
| 2. lamp (for heating) | ||
| 酒精燈 - alcohol burner | ||
| 3. (HKC, neologism) to jinx; to make incorrect predictions | ||
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Pronunciation
hóng lǜ dēng
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