rainbow

= + : Helga Horse (hu) wants to decorate engine's entrance ((e)ng2) by putting a rainbow (虹) over it. Before she can install the rainbow she first has to set up a steel beam (工) as support though. Fortunately there is a very strong mosquito (虫) who helps her to set up the beam above the entrance.

虹 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. In front of the engine ((e)ng1), Gitta Giraffe (gu) is doing some hard work: She's stacking a capacitor (二) on a dinosaur bone (丨) on a capacitor (二). She's not very successful, but then she gets the idea to use steel beams (工) as support.
variant of 蟲|虫[chong2]
lower form of animal life, including insects, insect larvae, worms and similar creatures / CL:條|条[tiao2],隻|只[zhi1] / (fig.) person with a particular undesirable characteristic

= + : Chantal Chicken and a mosquito are taking part in a dart contest just inside the engine's kitchen. The dart board is hanging in the middle of the entrance, and Chantal and the mosquito are standing to the sides. Over each of them a large fake nose is hovering: the loser will be covered in grey goose as punishment.

Characters with 虹 as component

虹 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 虹

rainbow / CL:道[dao4]
(neologism c. 2017) (slang) over-the-top praise
rainbow flag, aka LGBT pride flag
(bird species of China) rainbow bee-eater (Merops ornatus)
the two mass scuttling operations carried out by the German navy: the scuttling of the German fleet at Scapa Flow in 1919 and Operation Regenbogen, the scuttling of U-boats in 1945
(bird species of China) rainbow lorikeet (Trichoglossus haematodus)
(bird species of China) Himalayan monal (Lophophorus impejanus)
spirit reaches to the rainbow / full of noble aspiration and daring

Sentences with 虹

xi̅ng
xing
pu̅
chéng
yín
hé
 
 
cǎi
hóng
jià
zuò
fe̅i
qiáo