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Mythic Mandarin

红包 (hóng bāo): meaning and stroke order

红包 (hóng bāo) means money wrapped in red as a gift, bonus payment, kickback, bribe.

红包

Simplified
红包
Traditional
紅包
Pinyin
hóng bāo

Stroke order of 红包

红

  • Hóng surname Hong
  • gōng used in 女紅|女红[nu : 3 gong1]
  • hóng red; popular
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 紅

Stroke by stroke

包

  • Bāo surname Bao
  • bāo to cover; to wrap
  • 5 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 红包

  1. hóng bāo Traditional 紅包
    • money wrapped in red as a gift
    • bonus payment
    • kickback
    • bribe

Radicals of the characters

红
Radical 纟 (Kangxi radical 120) in its simplified form · 6 strokes · 纟 on the left, 工 on the right
包
Radical 勹 (Kangxi radical 20) · 5 strokes · built from 勹 and 巳

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

红包 in our stories

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  • 十二点的时候，爷爷给了冬冬一个红包。

    shí'èr diǎn de shíhou yéye gěi le Dōngdong yí gè hóngbāo

    At midnight Grandpa gives Dongdong a red envelope.

    From the story New Year at Grandma and Grandpa's HSK 2

Stories using 红包

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).