hóng
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 (of insects) to fly buzzing about

Examples

HSK 4
Hóng zì xíngróng xiǎo chóng fēidòng de yàngzi.
The character 'hong' describes small insects flying and buzzing.

Tips

history
is not used in modern Chinese; its only attested senses are 'insects flying' and use as a personal-name character (a Tang figure named 王翃 is recorded in the old Tang history). The feather radical marks the flying sense; supplies the sound, the same element seen in .
register
Archaic and literary. You meet only in old dictionaries and historical names, not in speech or modern writing.

Components

radical
feather; wings
(feathers / wings) is the indexing radical and supplies the meaning of : the beating of insect wings in flight.
phonetic
gōng
phonetic element
supplies the sound for , with the reading drifting; it is the same phonetic seen in and .

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Stroke Order

hóng