Si Collection, Upper Volume
Radical: Water (shuǐ)
Entry: Hong
Kangxi Stroke Count: 13
Page 635, Entry 16
Broad Rimes (Guangyun), Collected Rimes (Jiyun), Dictionary of Rimes (Yunhui), and Correct Rimes (Zhengyun): Pronounced hong.
Jade Chapter (Yupian): The sound of surging water. Another interpretation is the sound of water striking rocks. Sometimes written in a variant form. Also, in the Wu dialect, the phrase he nai hong is equivalent to saying that will do.
New Account of Tales of the World (Shishuo): Liu Zhenchang visited Wang Dao, who was pressing his belly against a chess board and said, he nai hong. When Liu Zhenchang left, he remarked that he did not see anything special about Wang Dao, as he only heard him speaking the Wu dialect.
Collected Rimes (Jiyun): Pronounced qing (falling tone). Same as the character meaning cold. People in the Wu region refer to it as such.
Window of Characters (Ziyou): In the Jiangdong region, this refers to being extremely bored or annoyed. Pronounced qing.