漢字Kanji · in Animals & Wildlife
虹: rainbow
JLPT N19 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
虫 carries the meaning · 工 is drawn in
9 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
コウkou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 虹彩こうさいiris
にじniji · kun'yomi · on its own
- 虹にじrainbow
- 主虹しゅにじprimary rainbow
Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)虫 insect; creature (meaning) + 工 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 虹 (rev. 92201615), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Insect radical + work/craft (工) = in ancient lore, rainbows were thought to be giant silken sky-serpents or 'insects' crafted in the clouds.”
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Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side虹 rainbow · 工
vs風 wind · 几In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · hóng
Same form: 虹 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 虹 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 虹 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin hóng most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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