Taxonomy of meanings for 霞:　　

  • 霞 xiá (OC: ɡraa MC: ɦɯa) 胡加切 平 廣韻：【赤氣騰爲雲又漢複姓有霞露氏 】
    • MIST
      • nmisty, rosy coloured clouds (appearing mainly in the morning or the evening)
    • RED
      • viCC, yuanyou: faint red (as of clouds)

    Additional information about 霞

    說文解字: 　　 【霞】，赤雲气也。从雨、叚聲。 【胡加切】

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    • MIST

      1. The current general word for billowing mist and fog, especially as the medium in which dragons and the like are roaming, is wù 霧.

      2. Xiá 霞 refers to misty, rosy diffuse clouds.

      Qì 氣 is sometimes used to refer to the misty substance that wù 霧 is made up of.

    • CLOUD

      1. The current general word for a cloud is yún 雲.

      2. Xiāo 霄 refers in an elevated style to high thin clouds, and the word is fairly rare.

      3. Xiá 霞 refers to misty, rosy-coloured clouds.

      4. Yùn 暈 refers to the halo round sun or moon which can occur when certain cloud formations surround the sun or moon, a phenomenon which attracted particular attention Shang dynasty astronomers.

      5. Bái hóng 白虹 refers to the palish rainbow-like structure which sometimes accompanies the halo round the moon or the sun.