鸿 — Chinese character
鸿
hóng
a species of wild swan; vast
- Pinyin
- hóng
- Radical
- 196 ⿃ (Bird)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 江 鸟
- Formation
- pictophonetic — bird; meaning component 鸟; sound component 江
- Traditional
- 鴻
Common words with 鸿
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 鸿沟 (鴻溝) | hóng gōu | (fig.) gulf; chasm; wide gap; (originally) the Hong Canal in Henan, which in ancient times formed the border between enemies Chu 楚 (Chǔ) and Han 汉 (Hàn) |
| 飞鸿 (飛鴻) | fēi hóng | swan goose; (fig.) letter; message |
| 鸿雁 (鴻雁) | hóng yàn | (bird species of China) swan goose (Anser cygnoides) |
| 鸿运 (鴻運) | hóng yùn | variant of 红运 (hóng yùn) |
| 鸿蒙 (鴻蒙) | hóng méng | (literary) primordial chaos (the undifferentiated state of the universe before creation) |
| 鸿福 (鴻福) | hóng fú | variant of 洪福 (hóng fú) |
| 惊鸿 (驚鴻) | jīng hóng | graceful (esp. of female posture); lithe |
| 鸿图 (鴻圖) | hóng tú | variant of 宏图 (hóng tú) |
| 鸿鹄 (鴻鵠) | hóng hú | swan; person with noble aspirations |
| 轻于鸿毛 (輕於鴻毛) | qīng yú hóng máo | light as a goose feather (idiom); trifling; unimportant |
| 哀鸿遍野 (哀鴻遍野) | āi hóng biàn yě | lit. plaintive whine of geese (idiom); fig. land swarming with disaster victims; starving people fill the land |
| 来鸿 (來鴻) | lái hóng | incoming letter (literary) |
English words written with 鸿
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.