surname Hong
red / popular / revolutionary / bonus

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a little red book.

Helga Horse (hu) is reading the little red book (红) in the engine's kitchen ((e)ng2), when she discovers that it is being eaten by a silk worm (纟). She overreacts a little and wants to beat the silk worm with a steel beam (工).

红 character breakdown

work / worker / skill / profession / trade / craft / labor

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a steel beam, since 工 looks like the cross section of a steel beam.

Gitta Giraffe (gu) is working a shift in front of the engine ((e)ng1). Her job is to melt dinosaur bones (丨) so that they can be disposed off easily. To melt the bones, she is shorting a huge capacitor (二) with a steel beam (工) which consequently heats up to a bright glow. Using the glowing hot steel beam she can melt the dinosaur bone easily.
"silk" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 120), occurring in 紅|红[hong2], 綠|绿[lü4], 累[lei4] etc / also pr. [mi4]

A silk worm.

Characters with 红 as component

used in 葒草|荭草[hong2 cao3]

Words with 红

to make popular / to make famous
rhinophyma (red nose, often related to rosacea or excessive alcohol) / brandy nose
the feminine arts (e.g. needlework)
lit. beautiful purples and brilliant reds (idiom) / fig. beautiful flowers
young Chinese cyber-nationalists
summer radish (the small red kind)
to drape sb in red silk as a sign of honor
to trace over red characters (as a method of learning to write)
to trace over red characters (as a method of learning to write) / paper printed with red characters to trace over
an expensive type of oolong tea
(bird species of China) greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus)

Sentences with 红

nǐ
kàn
 
 
nà
shǎn
shǎn
hóng
xiá
 
 
jiù
shì
táo
yuán