红白喜事

Every meaning

In the Library

• 人们还常常把这两种事放在一起，叫“红白喜事”。

  红色和白色在中国代表什么？ · What colours mean in China: red for luck, white for funerals · HSK 5

Its characters

• 红hóngred
• 白báiwhite
• 喜xǐhappy; joyful
• 事shìthing; matter; affair

Words with 红

• 红茶hóngcháblack tea
• 红色hóngsèred
• 红绿灯hónglǜdēngtraffic lights
• 红包hóngbāored envelope (gift of money)
• 西红柿xīhóngshìtomato
• 分红fēnhóngto share profits
• 红火hónghuǒprosperous
• 红利hónglì(fig.) benefit

Words with 白

• 白天báitiāndaytime
• 白色báisèwhite
• 明白míngbaito understand
• 白酒báijiǔbaijiu (Chinese white liquor)
• 白白báibáibye-bye
• 白领báilǐngwhite-collar worker
• 蛋白质dànbáizhìprotein
• 表白biǎobáito confess one's love