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吰

hóng
adjective

Meanings

  1. 1 (archaic) loud and resonant (of a bell or drum)
  2. 2 (archaic) grand; vast

Examples

HSK 7-9
噌吰如钟鼓不绝。
Chēnghóng rú zhōnggǔ bùjué.
A booming like bells and drums went on without end. (Su Shi, Record of Stone Bell Mountain)

Tips

history
吰 is archaic, used in classical reduplications like 噌吰 (the booming of a bell) and not used independently in modern Chinese. The 'grand / vast' sense is now written 宏 (grand) or 洪 (vast).
register
Archaic and literary only - seen in classical sound-describing binomes and etymology notes, not in modern speech or writing.

Components

radical
口 kǒu
mouth
口 the mouth radical marks this as a sound word, here the resonant booming of a bell or drum.
phonetic
厷 gōng
forearm; upper arm
厷 gives the sound (drifted to hóng). The same phonetic appears in 宏 (grand) and 肱 (the upper arm).

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Stroke Order

吰 hóng