swan goose; (fig.) letter; message

eastern bean goose; great; large

Cui Hong, historian at the end of Wei of the Northern Dynasties 北魏

graceful (esp. of female posture); lithe

incoming letter (literary)

Bochum (city in Germany)

Nahum

variant of 宏圖|宏图[hong2 tu2]

(fig.) gulf; chasm; wide gap; (originally) the Hong Canal in Henan, which in ancient times formed the border between enemies Chu 楚[Chu3] and Han 漢|汉[Han4]

Hon Hai Precision Industry Company, Taiwan technology company, aka Foxconn

variant of 洪福[hong2 fu2]

HarmonyOS (Huawei operating system)

(literary) primordial chaos (the undifferentiated state of the universe before creation)

variant of 紅運|红运[hong2 yun4]

(bird species of China) swan goose (Anser cygnoides)

swan; person with noble aspirations

Hongmen feast; (fig.) banquet set up with the aim of murdering a guest; refers to a famous episode in 206 BC when future Han emperor Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦[Liu2 Bang1] escaped attempted murder by his rival Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[Xiang4 Yu3]

minister responsible for foreign relations and court protocol in imperial China

Xu Beihong (1895-1953), famous European-trained painter and influential art teacher

Li Hung-chang or Li Hongzhang (1823-1901), Qing dynasty general, politician and diplomat

Ku Hung-ming or Gu Hongming (1857–1928), Malaysian writer known for his English-language works and defense of Qing dynasty monarchy

Book of Nahum

beech mushroom (Hypsizygus tessulatus), usually referring to the brown cultivated variety

(archaic) office in charge of ceremony and protocol

lit. plaintive whine of geese (idiom); fig. land swarming with disaster victims; starving people fill the land

lit. the goose comes, the swallow goes (idiom); fig. always on the move

as weighty as Mt Tai, as light as a feather (refers to death)

light as a goose feather (idiom); trifling; unimportant

letter from afar (literary)

a goose's footprint in the snow; vestiges of the past (idiom); the fleeting nature of human life (idiom)

see 雪泥鴻爪|雪泥鸿爪[xue3 ni2 hong2 zhao3]

see 雪泥鴻爪|雪泥鸿爪[xue3 ni2 hong2 zhao3]

important large scale project

lit. light as a goose feather, heavy as Mt Tai (idiom); fig. of no consequence to one person, a matter of life or death to another

light as a goose feather, heavy as Mt Tai (idiom); of no consequence to one person, a matter of life or death to another

chop suey (American Chinese dish)

lit. can the sparrow and swallow know the will of the great swan? (idiom); fig. how can we small fry predict the ambitions of the great?

lit. can the sparrow and swallow know the will of the great swan? (idiom); fig. how can we small fry predict the ambitions of the great?