Chinese Word of the Day
红色hóng sè
red
Definitions
| Chinese > English | ||
| 红色 | ||
| 1. Simplified form of 紅色 | ||
| 紅色 | hóngsè | |
| 1. n. the color red | ||
| 2. adj. red | ||
| 3. adj. (Mainland) revolutionary | ||
| English > Chinese | ||
| red | ||
| 1. 形容词. 紅的 | ||
| 2. 形容词. 紅色的 | ||
| 3. 名词. 紅 | ||
| 4. 名词. 紅色 | ||
| 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.) | ||
| 色 | sè, shǎi, shè | |
| 1. color; tint; hue; shade | ||
| 顏色 - color | ||
| 顏色shǎi兒r - color | ||
| 紅色 - red | ||
| 四.色.定理 - four color theorem | ||
| 2. (zh-no-solo) look; expression | ||
| 臉色 - facial expression | ||
| 3. (zh-no-solo) scenery; circumstance | ||
| 景色 - scenery | ||
| 夜色 - night scenery | ||
| 4. kind; sort | ||
| 貨色 - goods; stuff; trash; rubbish; quality of goods; specification | ||
| 5. feminine charm; beauty | ||
| 姿色 - good looks (of women) | ||
| 6. lust; sexual desire | ||
| 好hào色 - to lust for women | ||
| 色情 - pornography; sexual desire | ||
| 7. (colloquial) perverted; being a pervert; lecherous | ||
| 8. theatrical role | ||
| 角jué色 - role; part | ||
| 9. metallic content | ||
| 成色 - purity (of a precious metal in an alloy) | ||
| 10. die (a cube with numbers or symbols on each side, used in games of chance) | ||
| 色shǎi子zi - die | ||
| 11. (Buddhism) (l-lite, pi, rūpa) (form; material element; form of existence; etc.) | ||
| 色 即 是 空，空 即 是 色。 - Form is emptiness, emptiness is form. | ||
| 12. (transgender slang) Short for 色普龍; cypro (cyproterone acetate) | ||
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Pronunciation
hóng sè
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