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red (color) / revolutionary
HSK 2
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *红* | 红* | *红
red / popular / revolutionary / bonus
HSK 2
black tea / CL: , 壺|壶
HSK 3
red wine
HSK 3
money wrapped in red as a gift / bonus payment / kickback / bribe
HSK 4
tomato
HSK 5
very red / red through and through / to blush (deep red)
HSK 6
dividend / to award a bonus
HSK 7-9
red light
HSK 7-9
vermilion
HSK 7-9
sweet potato
HSK 7-9
to become infuriated / to see red / envious / jealous / covetous / pink eye (conjunctivitis) / red-eye (flight)(photography) red eye
HSK 7-9
ruddy / rosy / florid
HSK 7-9
flushed with anger (or excitement)
HSK 7-9
to covet / envious / jealous / green with envy / infuriated / furious
HSK 7-9
red / rosy / flushed
HSK 7-9
prosperous
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *红* | 红* | *红
surname Hong
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *红* | 红* | *红
Man Jiang Hong (Chinese poems)
red meat
Hongqi district of Xinxiang city 新鄉市|新乡市, Henan
red flag / CL:
red line
azuki bean; red bean
A Dream of Red Mansions (first completed edition 1791) by Cao Xueqin 曹雪芹, one of the four great novels
red star / five pointed star as symbol or communism or proletariat / hot film star
Red Army (1928-1937), predecessor of the PLA / (Soviet) Red Army (1917-1946)
pink
mangrove forest or swamp
infrared (ray)
to be popular / to be in luck / to have good luck / to develop smoothly
Red Bull (energy drink)
heart ♥ (in card games) / red, heart-shaped symbol / bullseye
sun
red soil / laterite
Honggang district of Daqing city 大慶|大庆, Heilongjiang
Red Square (in Moscow)
heart ♥ (in card games)
pink
to braise in soy sauce until reddish-brown
a beautiful woman / young beauties / youths / rosy cheeks
flowers on red silk (a traditional gift to celebrate weddings etc) / a bonus / crab apple (Malus asiatica)
bonus; dividend
Red River, principal river of northern Vietnam, originating in Yunnan (southwestern China)
safflower (Carthamus tinctorius)
orange (color) / orange peel (used in TCM)
the world of mortals (Buddhism) / human society / worldly affairs
Hong'an county in Huanggang 黃岡|黄冈, Hubei
lipstick
red autumnal leaves
jujube / red date
rouge (cosmetics)
to blush / to turn red
(medicine) erythema
red candle (used during birthdays and other celebrations)
bright red
red card (sports)
splendid gay female clothing
thousands of purples and reds (idiom); a blaze of color / fig. a profusion of flourishing trades
crimson / scarlet
Honghuagang District of Zunyi City 遵義市|遵义市, Guizhou
inflamed / red and swollen
dark red
Hongqiao district of Tianjin municipality 天津市
bright red
haw fruit
a good beginning
Red Sea
(neologism) highly competitive market (contrasted with 藍海|蓝海)
crimson
Hongshan District of Chifeng City 赤峰市, Inner Mongolia
to trace over red characters (as a method of learning to write) / paper printed with red characters to trace over
Hongta district of Yuxi city 玉溪市, Yunnan
(biochemistry) heme / (Tw) hemoglobin
matchmaker
to blush / to redden (with shame, indignation etc)
magenta; fuschia
saffron (Crocus sativus)
good luck
a favorite of sb in power / a celebrity / American Indian
brown sugar
(of a stock price or market index) currently higher than at the previous day's close
fiery / blazing
red carpet
an expensive type of oolong tea
lanterns red, wine green (idiom); feasting and pleasure-seeking / debauched and corrupt environment
to blush / to flush red
The East is Red, north Shaanxi folk song
scarlet fever
kombucha (fermented tea)
(literary) the feminine arts (e.g. needlework)
red phosphorus
red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) / CL:
lit. the red apricot tree leans over the garden wall (idiom) / fig. a wife having an illicit lover
scarlet / bright red
currently popular (of movie stars, singers etc)
to hit the big time
erythromycin

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