虹

Glyph origin
Originally in the oracle bone script. The ancient Chinese regarded the rainbow as a two-headed creature.

In the seal script, it has become a.

Etymology
Probably non-Sino-Tibetan; compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,.

and relate this to  and.

Definitions

 * 1) rainbow; primary rainbow
 * 2)  bridge
 * 1)  bridge
 * 1)  bridge

Definitions

 * 1)  to fester

Kanji
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Etymology 1
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From. First attested in the  of 712.

Also attested as man’yōgana form in the  of 1079. May be a shift from earlier or  readings.

Noun

 * 1) a rainbow

Etymology 3
From.

Affix

 * 1) rainbow
 * 2) rainbowlike

Etymology 1
From.

Etymology 2
From.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) a rainbow

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) a rainbow