赤字
Chinese edit
red; scarlet; bare red; scarlet; bare; naked |
letter; symbol; character letter; symbol; character; word | ||
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simp. and trad. (赤字) |
赤 | 字 | |
Literally: “red character”. |
Etymology edit
Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 赤字 (akaji).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
赤字
Derived terms edit
See also edit
- 黑字 (hēizì, “surplus”)
Japanese edit
Kanji in this term | |
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赤 | 字 |
あか Grade: 1 |
じ Grade: 1 |
yutōyomi |
Etymology edit
From 赤 (aka, “red”) + 字 (ji, “characters”). The “deficit” sense, attested since the Taishō period, relates to the tradition of indicating negative sums in a ledger with red ink.[1] Compare English in the red.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
- (literal) characters written in red
- 1892, “Erizabesu jidai bungaku ryūsei no gen'in [Causes of the rise of literature in the Elizabethan era]”, in Girishia Roma bungakushi, page 44:
- 此聖書赤字ヲ似テ印行セリ故ニ斯ク言フナリ
- Kore Seisho akaji o nite inkō seri yueni shiku ifunari
- In the Bible this print in red letters shows what He said
- 此聖書赤字ヲ似テ印行セリ故ニ斯ク言フナリ
- (business) red ink, deficit, in the red
- corrections (by a teacher or proofreader) written in red
Antonyms edit
Derived terms edit
- 赤字国債 (akaji kokusai, “deficit-covering (government) bond”)
- 赤字財政 (akaji zaisei, “deficit financing”)
References edit
- ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
Korean edit
Hanja in this term | |
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赤 | 字 |