hóng
adjective #14,471

Meanings

  1. 1 great; magnificent; grand
  2. 2 macro

Examples

Tā yǒu yīgè hóngdà de jìhuà.
He has a grand plan.
Zhè zuò jiànzhù fēicháng hóngwěi.
This building is very magnificent.

Tips

usage
is found in 宏观 (macro/macroscopic), 宏伟 (magnificent), and 宏大 (grand). The opposite of 宏观 is 微观 (micro).

Components

radical
mián
roof; house
The roof radical on top frames as something architectural - originally a large hall or grand building. The image of a wide roof neatly captures the abstract sense great / magnificent / grand and groups with , and under the cover-of-the-house family.
phonetic
gōng
upper arm (literary)
Sits under the roof and lends the sound, drifting from gōng to hóng. The upper-arm meaning is incidental, but it makes a fine memory hook: a strong arm holding up a vast roof - exactly the image of grandeur conveys.

Stroke Order

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