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RedNote

RedNote proper noun: chinese social networking and e-commerce platform.

Proper noun

RedNote

  1. (China, social media) Chinese social networking and e-commerce platform.
    • The start of this week saw a dramatic uptick in Google searches and social media posts about RedNote, as well as its surge to the top spot of the "free apps" chart on Apple's app store.2025 January 17, “What to know about RedNote, the Chinese app that American TikTokkers are flooding”, in NPR
    Synonyms:
    Xiaohongshu

Synonyms of RedNote

  • Xiaohongshu

Origin of RedNote

Compound of red + note. English translation of Chinese 小红书 (Xiaohongshu, literally “Little Red Book”). Coined in 2024, but launched in 2013. It should note, however, the actual Chinese name of Little Red Book is actually Hong Bao Shu, not Xiao Hong Shu.

Questions about RedNote

What does RedNote mean?
RedNote means chinese social networking and e-commerce platform.
What part of speech is RedNote?
RedNote is a proper noun.

Words near RedNote in the dictionary

  1. rednecky
  2. redner
  3. redness
  4. rednesses
  5. rednosed
  6. RedNote
  7. Rednour
  8. Rednours
  9. redo
  10. redoability
  11. redoable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: RedNote (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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