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

orange (color) / orange peel (used in TCM)
green willow and red flowers / all the colors of spring
pinkish-red (color)
(bird species of China) common redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus)
merbromin / mercurochrome
to blush / to redden / flushed
carmine / magenta
deep red / crimson / scarlet
lit. green willows and red flowers (idiom) / fig. all the colors of spring
carmine; magenta
Indian azalea (Rhododendron simsii)
(bird species of China) pink-rumped rosefinch (Carpodacus eos)
Zeng Qinghong (1939-), vice-president of PRC 2003-2008
Zhu Hongdeng, one of the leaders of the Boxer Rebellion
The East is Red, north Shaanxi folk song

Sentences with 红

nǐ
kàn
 
 
nà
shǎn
shǎn
hóng
xiá
 
 
jiù
shì
táo
yuán