hòng hóng

species of wild swan; vast

DEFINITIONS

鴻 hóng
  • eastern bean goose
  • great
  • large

WORDS

lái hóng incoming letter (literary)
去燕 lái hóng qù yàn lit. the goose comes, the swallow goes (idiom); fig. always on the move
遍野 āi hóng biàn yě lit. plaintive whine of geese (idiom); fig. land swarming with disaster victims; starving people fill the land
臚 dà hóng lú Grand Herald in imperial China, one of the Nine Ministers 九卿[jiu3 qing1]
cuī hóng Cui Hong, historian at the end of Wei of the Northern Dynasties 北魏
張二 zhāng èr hóng Jung Chang 張戎|张戎[Zhang1 Rong2] (1952-), British-Chinese writer, author of Wild Swans 野天鵝|野天鹅[Ye3 Tian1 e2] and Mao: The Unknown Story 毛澤東·鮮為人知的故事|毛泽东·鲜为人知的故事[Mao2 Ze2 dong1 · Xian1 wei2 ren2 zhi1 de5 Gu4 shi5]
徐悲 xú bēi hóng Xu Beihong (1895-1953), famous European trained painter and influential art teacher
章 lǐ hóng zhāng Li Hung-chang or Li Hongzhang (1823-1901), Qing dynasty general, politician and diplomat
bō hóng Bochum (city in Germany)
泰山毛 tài shān hóng máo as weighty as Mt Tai, as light as a feather (refers to death)
燕雀安知鵠之志 yàn què ān zhī hóng hú zhī zhì lit. can the sparrow and swallow know the will of the great swan? (idiom); fig. how can we small fry predict the ambitions of the great?
燕雀焉知鵠之志 yàn què yān zhī hóng gǔ zhī zhì lit. can the sparrow and swallow know the will of the great swan? (idiom); fig. how can we small fry predict the ambitions of the great?
nà hóng Nahum
輕於毛 qīng yú hóng máo light as a goose feather (idiom); trifling; unimportant
銘 gū hóng míng Ku Hung-ming or Gu Hongming (1857-1928), Malaysian man of letters, highly regarded for his literary works written mostly in English, and known for his monarchist views
遠方來 yuǎn fāng lái hóng letter from afar (literary)
書 nà hóng shū Book of Nahum
雪泥爪 xuě ní hóng zhǎo a goose's footprint in the snow; vestiges of the past (idiom); the fleeting nature of human life (idiom)
踏雪 fēi hóng tà xuě see 雪泥鴻爪|雪泥鸿爪[xue3 ni2 hong2 zhao3]
雪爪 fēi hóng xuě zhuǎ see 雪泥鴻爪|雪泥鸿爪[xue3 ni2 hong2 zhao3]
jīng hóng graceful (esp. of female posture); lithe
圖 hóng tú variant of 宏圖|宏图[hong2 tu2]
圖大計 hóng tú dà jì important large scale project
毛泰山 hóng máo tài shān lit. light as a goose feather, heavy as Mt Tai (idiom); fig. of no consequence to one person, a matter of life or death to another
毛泰岱 hóng máo tài dài light as a goose feather, heavy as Mt Tai (idiom); of no consequence to one person, a matter of life or death to another
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