Radical 纟

6 strokes

紅

thread 纟 (233a) + work 工 (147) = red 红

[红海 (129) Hónghǎi the Red Sea]

(A young girl is sewing a quilt) She rests for a moment with the thread trailing across her work. then she looks down and sees a red stain spreading across the fabric — she has pricked her finger without realizing. / Luckily the fairy knows a magic stain-removing spell that she learnt in Hong Kong!

This fragment always appears as the left-hand side of composite characters. We will meet another form of it later (607b).