赤

See also 亦

Translingual

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Red Kanji Symbol

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 大 (“person, big”) + 火 (“fire”) – the color of fire (a person by a fire).

Han character

赤 (radical 155 赤+0, 7 strokes, cangjie input 土中弓金 (GLNC), four-corner 4033₁)

1. red
2. bare
3. communist, 'red' ({{{1}}})

References

• KangXi: page 1213, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36993
• Dae Jaweon: page 1680, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3506, character 1
• Unihan data for U+8D64

Synonyms

• 紅 / 红
• 朱
• 緋
• 丹

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Cantonese

Hanzi

赤 (Yale chek3, chik3)

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Hakka

Hanzi

赤 (POJ chhak, Guangdong ts'ak⁷; tsh'ak⁷ [Meixian], ch'ak⁷ [Hailu, Kwangtung], Hagfa Pinyim cag5)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

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Kanji

赤 (grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. red

Readings

• Go'on: しゃく (shaku)
• Kan'on: せき (seki)
• Kun: あか (aka), あかい (赤い, akai), あからむ (赤らむ, akaramu), あからめる (赤らめる, akarameru)
• Nanori: あ (a), あか (aka), あこ (ako), あま (ama)

References

JIS: 4056 Kuten: 3254 Shift JIS: 90D4 EUC-JP: C0D6 Frequency: 584 Nelson: 4534

New Nelson: 5840 Halpern: 2193 Halpern Learners: 1389 Heisig: 1743 Tuttle Kanji Dictionary: 3b4.10

1. Source: EDICT and KANJIDIC files licensed by the Electronic Dictionaries Research Group.

Compounds

Compounds

赤羽 赤烏 赤化 赤禍 赤外線 (せきがいせん, sekigaisen) 赤血球 (せっけっきゅう, sekkekkyū) 赤日 (せきじつ, sekijitsu) 赤手 赤十字 (the Red Cross) 赤心 赤身 赤沈 赤鉄鉱 赤道 (せきどう, sekidō) 赤銅

赤銅色 赤熱 赤飯 赤貧 赤面 (せきめん, sekimen; あかづら, akadsura) 赤裸々 赤痢 (せきり, sekiri) 赤燐 赤子 (baby) 赤字 (あかじ, akaji) 赤土 赤の他人 (あかのたにん, akanotanin) 赤恥 赤身

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• Standard Accent: あ​か (Atamadaka)
• IPA: /aꜜ.ka/, [ä˦.kä˨]

• あか

  (file)

Noun

赤 (hiragana あか, romaji aka)

1. the colour red

Derived terms

• 赤い (あかい, akai): red (adjective)

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Korean

Hanja

赤
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 적 (revised: jeok, McCune-Reischauer: chŏk, Yale: cek)

• Name (hangeul): 븕을()

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Mandarin

Hanzi

赤 (pinyin cè (ce4), chì (chi4), Wade-Giles ts'e4, ch'ih4)

Usage notes

In modern standard Chinese, "赤" is not common for ordinary use for the meaning of red. Another word is used instead: "紅/红". Here are the examples: 1. 我買了一個紅蘋果/我买了一个红苹果。I bought a red apple. 2. 紅色是用作危險的警告色/红色是用作危险的警告色。Red is used as a warning colour of danger.

"赤" is more commonly used in slogans, poem and coinage for the meaning of red. Here are the examples: 赤色政權/赤色政权(literal meaning: red regime)- communist regime 赤色的晚霞- red sunset clouds 赤字 - (literal meaning: red figures/numbers)- deficit

Compounds

赤白痢 赤背 赤膊 赤膊上阵 赤潮 赤忱 赤诚 赤带 赤胆忠心 赤道 赤道几尼亚 赤地 赤光光 赤红 赤狐 赤脚 赤脚医生 赤金 赤佬, 赤老 赤痢 赤练蛇 赤磷 赤露 赤裸 (chìluǒ)

赤裸裸 赤霉素 赤贫 赤热 赤日 赤色 赤芍 赤身 赤身裸体 赤手 赤手空拳 赤松 赤条精光 赤条条 赤铁矿 赤铜矿 赤县 赤小豆 赤心 赤扬 赤子 赤字 (chìzì) 赤足

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Vietnamese

Han character

赤 (xích)