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Hong (rainbow-dragon)
Hong or jiang () is a two-headed dragon in Chinese mythology, comparable with rainbow serpent legends in diverse cultures and mythologies.
==Chinese "rainbow" names==
Chinese has three "rainbow" words, regular ''hong'' 虹, literary ''didong'' 蝃蝀, and ''ni'' 蜺 "secondary rainbow".
Note that all these Chinese characters share a graphic element of ''hui'' 虫 "insect; worm; reptile; etc." (cf. tripled ''chong'' 蟲), known in Chinese as Kangxi radical number 142 and loosely translated in English as the "insect radical". In traditional Chinese character classification, "radical-phonetic" or "phono-semantic" characters are statistically the most common category, and they combine a "radical" or determinative that suggests semantic field with a "phonetic" element that roughly indicates pronunciation. Words written with this 虫 radical typically name not only insects, but also reptiles, and other miscellaneous creatures, including some dragons such as ''shen'' 蜃 "aquatic dragon" and ''jiao'' 蛟 "flood dragon". Linguistic anthropologists studying folk taxonomy discovered many languages have zoological categories similar to ''hui'' 虫, and Brown (1979) coined the portmanteau word ''wug'' (from ''worm'' + ''bug'') meaning the class of "insects, worms, spiders, and smaller reptiles". Following Carr (1990:87), "wug" is used as the English translation of the Chinese logographic radical 虫.
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