鸿

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eastern bean goose; great; large

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Formation & memory

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Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

鸟 meaning “bird” + 江 sound ( jiāng )

Components 江鸟

swan · Heisig RSH #2865

江 Yangtze + 鸟 bird

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

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Word	Pinyin	Meaning
鸿图大计	hóng tú dà jì	important large scale project
远方来鸿	yuǎn fāng lái hóng	letter from afar (literary)
泰山鸿毛	Tài shān hóng máo	as weighty as Mt Tai, as light as a feather (refers to death)
鸿毛泰山	hóng máo Tài Shān	lit. light as a goose feather, heavy as Mt Tai (idiom); fig. of no consequence to one pers…
黄飞鸿	Huáng Fēi hóng	Wong Fei-hung (1847-1925), martial arts master
轻于鸿毛	qīng yú hóng máo	light as a goose feather (idiom); trifling; unimportant
来鸿去燕	lái hóng qù yàn	lit. the goose comes, the swallow goes (idiom); fig. always on the move
鸿海	Hóng hǎi	Hon Hai Precision Industry Company, Taiwan technology company, aka Foxconn
那鸿书	Nà hóng shū	Book of Nahum
燕雀安知鸿鹄之志	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…
来鸿	lái hóng	incoming letter (literary)
鸿运	hóng yùn	variant of 紅運\|红运[hong2 yun4]
飞鸿踏雪	fēi hóng tà xuě	see 雪泥鴻爪\|雪泥鸿爪[xue3 ni2 hong2 zhao3]
李鸿章杂碎	Lǐ Hóng zhāng zá sui	chop suey (American Chinese dish)
波鸿	Bō hóng	Bochum (city in Germany)
纳鸿	Nà hóng	Nahum
鸿图	hóng tú	variant of 宏圖\|宏图[hong2 tu2]
李鸿章	Lǐ Hóng zhāng	Li Hung-chang or Li Hongzhang (1823-1901), Qing dynasty general, politician and diplomat
飞鸿	fēi hóng	swan goose; (fig.) letter; message
鸿福	hóng fú	variant of 洪福[hong2 fu2]

Characters sharing the sound component 江 — compare how they read.

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
江 sound part	jiāng	large river; the Yangtze; surname
茳	jiāng	Shichito matgrass