| 鸿 | hóng | eastern bean goose; great; large |
| 李鸿章 | Lǐ Hóng zhāng | Li Hung-chang or Li Hongzhang (1823-1901), Qing dynasty general, politician and diplomat |
| 鸿沟 | hóng gōu | wide gap; gulf; chasm; lit. name of old canal in Henan that formed the border between enemies Chu 楚 and Han 汉 |
| 来鸿 | lái hóng | incoming letter (literary) |
| 来鸿去燕 | lái hóng qù yàn | lit. the goose comes, the swallow goes (idiom); fig. always on the move |
| 哀鸿遍野 | āi hóng biàn yě | lit. plaintive whine of geese (idiom); fig. land swarming with disaster victims; starving people fill the land |
| 大鸿胪 | Dà Hóng lú | Grand Herald in Imperial China, one of the Nine Ministers 九卿 |
| 崔鸿 | Cuī Hóng | Cui Hong, historian at the end of Wei of the Northern Dynasties 北魏 |
| 张二鸿 | Zhāng Èr hóng | Jung Chang 张戎 (1952-), British Chinese writer, author of Wild Swans 野天鹅 and Mao Zedong, the unknown story 毛澤東:毛泽东:鲜为人知的故事 |
| 徐悲鸿 | Xú Bēi hóng | Xu Beihong (1895-1953), famous European trained painter and influential art teacher |
| 波鸿 | Bō hóng | Bochum (city in Germany) |
| 泰山鸿毛 | Tài shān hóng máo | as weighty as Mt Tai, as light as a feather (refers to death) |
| 燕雀安知鸿鹄之志 | yàn què ān zhī hóng hú zhī zhì | lit. can the sparrow and swallow know the will of the great swan? (idiom); fig. how can we small fry predict the ambitions of the great? |
| 燕雀焉知鸿鹄之志 | yàn què yān zhī hóng gǔ zhī zhì | lit. can the sparrow and swallow know the will of the great swan? (idiom); fig. how can we small fry predict the ambitions of the great? |
| 纳鸿 | Nà hóng | Nahum |
| 轻于鸿毛 | qīng yú hóng máo | light as a goose feather (idiom); trifling; unimportant |
| 远方来鸿 | yuǎn fāng lái hóng | letter from afar (literary) |
| 那鸿书 | nà hóng shū | Book of Nahum |
| 雪泥鸿爪 | xuě ní hóng zhǎo | a goose's footprint in the snow; vestiges of the past (idiom); the fleeting nature of human life (idiom) |
| 飞鸿踏雪 | fēi hóng tà xuě | see 雪泥鸿爪 |
| 飞鸿雪爪 | fēi hóng xuě zhuǎ | see 雪泥鸿爪 |
| 惊鸿 | jīng hóng | graceful (esp. of female posture); lithe |
| 鸿图 | hóng tú | variant of 宏图 |
| 鸿图大计 | hóng tú dà jì | important large scale project |
| 鸿毛泰山 | hóng máo Tài shān | light as a goose feather, heavy as Mt Tai (idiom); of no consequence to one person, a matter of life or death to another |
| 鸿毛泰岱 | hóng máo tài dài | light as a goose feather, heavy as Mt Tai (idiom); of no consequence to one person, a matter of life or death to another |
| 鸿海 | Hóng hǎi | Hon Hai Precision Industry Company, Taiwan technology company |
| 鸿章 | Hóng zhāng | Li Hung-chang or Li Hongzhang (1823-1901), Qing dynasty general, politician and diplomat |
| 鸿门宴 | Hóng mén yàn | Feast at Hongmen; fig. banquet set up with the aim of murdering a guest; refers to a famous episode in 206 BC when future Han emperor Liu Bang 刘邦 escaped attempted murder by his rival Xiangyu 项羽 |
| 鸿雁 | hóng yàn | swan goose |
| 鸿鹄 | hóng hú | swan; person with noble aspirations |
| 黄飞鸿 | Huáng Fēi hóng | Wong Fei Hung (1847-1924), famous martial artist and revolutionary |
