红石

紅石
hóngshí
noun #33,400

Meanings

  1. 1 redstone (red-colored stone)
  2. 2 (in Minecraft) Redstone — the in-game material used for circuits and contraptions

Examples

Tā yòng hóngshí zuò le yī gè zìdòng mén.
He built an automatic door using Redstone.
Zhè zuò shān shàng yǒu dà piàn hóngshí.
There are large patches of red stone on this mountain.

Tips

culture
Among Chinese gamers, 红石 is overwhelmingly the Minecraft term — Redstone, the wire-like material that lets players build logic circuits, pistons, and traps. 红石电路 (Redstone circuits) are a whole sub-genre of Minecraft tutorials on Bilibili.
usage
Outside Minecraft, 红石 is just a literal description of red-coloured rock and shows up in place names like 红石公园 (Redstone Park) — there's a famous one in Yunnan.

In Pop Culture

世界 Wǒ de Shìjiè
Minecraft
The game where 红石 (Redstone) is the wiring material players use to build automatic doors, calculators, and even working CPUs inside the game world.

Stroke Order

hóng
shí