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红

Unicode: U+7EA2

Pinyin: hōng hóng gōng

Definition

hóng:* 像鲜血的颜色。 ～色。～叶。～灯。～尘。～包。～烧。～润。～艳艳。～口白牙。～绳系足（旧指男女前生注定的姻缘）。 * 象征顺利或受人宠信。 ～人。～运。～角（ jué ）儿（受观众欢迎的演员）。走～。 * 喜庆。 ～媒（媒人）。～蛋。～白喜事（结婚和喜丧合称）。 * 象征革命。 ～军。～色根据地，～色政权。 * 指营业的纯利润。 ～利。分～。 * 特指对中国古典文学名著 ～学。 gōng:* 古同"工"，指妇女的生产作业，纺织、缝纫、刺绣等

red, vermillion; blush, flush

Structure

红 graph

Related substructures

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Precursors

Chu Script
c. 770–221 BCE (Chu, Spring & Autumn–Warring States)
A regional script tradition used in the state of Chu, best known from brush-written bamboo and silk manuscripts with distinctive local forms.Wikipedia ->
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Qin Script
c. 475–206 BCE (Qin, Warring States → Qin dynasty)
Qin-area character forms attested on bamboo/wood slips (e.g., Shuihudi, deposited 217 BCE), overlapping chronologically with the standardization of seal script and the emergence of clerical tendencies.Wikipedia ->
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Small Seal Script
Standardized 221–206 BCE (Qin); developed earlier in Qin
The standardized seal script promulgated after Qin’s unification, based on earlier Qin seal forms and used as an empire-wide norm.Wikipedia ->
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Transmitted Pre-Qin Forms
Pre-Qin forms (≤221 BCE) / late 2nd century BCE onward (Han → later textual transmission)
Pre-Qin character forms preserved through later textual transmission (often discussed as the 'Old Text' / guwen tradition). Shaped by repeated copying, they can diverge from excavated Warring States materials.Wikipedia ->
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Last Modified: 2026-01-29 11:48 UTC