Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- hóng
English
- rainbow
- rainbow
- mark; small area of a different colour
粵語
- 印；痕跡；由污漬、施加壓力造成嘅痕
As a component in
Words containing 虹
- 彩虹coi2 hung4
rainbow
- 天虹tin1 hung4
Rainbow
- 虹膜hung4 mok2
iris (of an eye)
- 霓虹ngai4 hung4
(loanword) neon lights (abbr. for 霓虹燈|霓虹灯[ni2 hong2 deng1])
- 霓虹燈ngai4 hung4 dang1
(loanword) neon lights
- 虹吸管hung4 kap1 gun2
siphon
- 雙虹soeng1 hung4
double rainbow
- 彩虹橋coi2 hung4 kiu4
Literally, rainbow bridge, the paradise of animals; Bifröst (from Norse mythology) - a burning rainbow bridge situated between Midgard and AsgardIn; Hongu utux (from the mythology of the Atayal, a Taiwanese indigenous group) - a bridge connecting to the immortal world.
- 虹橋hung4 kiu4
arched bridge
- 長虹coeng4 hung4
Changhong (brand)
- 海虹hoi2 hung4
mussel
- 虹彩hung4 coi2
iridescence
- 虹吸hung4 kap1
(lit. and fig.) to siphon
- 翁虹jung1 hung4
Yvonne Yung Hung, name of a Hong Kong actress
- 彩虹鸚鵡coi2 hung4 jing1 mou5
(bird species of China) coconut lorikeet (Trichoglossus haematodus)
- 彩虹旗coi2 hung4 kei4
rainbow flag, aka LGBT pride flag
- 彩虹屁coi2 hung4 pei3
(neologism c. 2017) (slang) over-the-top praise
- 虹口區hung4 hau2 keoi1
Hongkou district, central Shanghai
- 虹鱒hung4 zyun1
rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)
- 氣勢如虹hei3 sai3 jyu4 hung4
(usually cause or goal pursuits) very momentous; literally: with vehemence of a rainbow
- 彩虹行動coi2 hung4 hang4 dung6
the two mass scuttling operations carried out by the German navy: the scuttling of the German fleet at Scapa Flow in 1919 and Operation Regenbogen, the scuttling of U-boats in 1945
- 氣貫長虹hei3 gun3 coeng4 hung4
spirit reaches to the rainbow
- 彩虹族群coi2 hung4 zuk6 kwan4
the LGBT+ community
- 黃賓虹wong4 ban1 hung4
Huang Binhong (1865-1955), art historian and literati painter