Shen Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Grass (cǎo) Hong; Kangxi stroke count: 19; Page 1059, Entry 41 Pronounced hong. The heart or center of a vegetable growing long. Also, means to grow lushly. Also, the name of a vegetable. Siming has a vegetable named vegetable in the snow (xuelihong). When the snow is deep and other vegetables freeze to death, this vegetable alone remains green. Also, in the customs of the Wu region, the sprouting of plants is called hong. Sometimes written in a variant form using the component gong.