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red; crimson; Red; communist; (arch.) beautiful
red; crimson; red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange); Red (i.e. communist); red light (traffic); red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading); (in) the red
baby; infant
red hair; ginger hair
dark red; dark brown; reddish brown
to blush; to redden
to blush; to go red in the face; to change color; to change colour
red; red color (colour); red-colored; red; communism; the left
reddish tinge; tinge of red; slight redness; reddishness; blush
failing mark (e.g. in exam)
complete stranger; total stranger
(being in) the red; deficit; red letter; red writing; corrections (by a teacher or proofreader) written in red
to become red; to redden; to blush
Japanese red pine (Pinus densiflora); Japanese umbrella pine; tanyosho pine
red eyes; bloodshot eyes; red-eye; red mullet (Chelon haematocheilus); facial gesture of pulling one's eyelid down and sticking out one's tongue
bright red; bright
bright red; deep red
to be tinged red
red string of fate; in Chinese-Japanese folklore, fated lovers were said to be joined by an unseen red string, tied around one little finger of each
red light (traffic); red light; signal to stop; sign of danger
to turn reddish-brown; to turn rufous; to become discolored; to become discoloured
red-horned demon; red ogre
red ball; amber; (arch.) patent medicine; brand of sweet wine
bishop wood (Bischofia javanica); barked tree; red tree
reddish brown
red flesh (of a fish); red-fleshed fish (e.g. tuna); lean meat; heartwood
red clay; tuff loam; dark-red paint
troops outfitted with red armor (Sengoku and Edo periods)
shame; disgrace
red beard; person with a red beard; Westerner; Ryukyu robin (Erithacus komadori)
red cap; (railway) porter; redcap
tinged with red; reddish
being greatly in the red; taking a big loss; heavy deficit
red string of fate; in Chinese-Japanese folklore, fated lovers were said to be joined by an unseen red string, tied around one little finger of each
red flag; Red Flag (Communist Party newspaper)
red line; red-light district (marked by a red line on police maps); non-legal public road (denoted by a red line on cadastral maps; sometimes no longer physically existing)
red cloth; red background
red cheeks; apple cheeks
to take candy from a baby; to accomplish something with ease; (lit.) to twist a baby's arm
pulp fiction; dime novel; akahon; university entrance exam workbook (published by Kyōgakusha); storybook (with red cover, Edo period); Red Guide (Michelin)
red blanket; country bumpkin
Chinese scarlet eggplant (Solanum integrifolium); tomato-fruit eggplant; tomato (Solanum lycopersicum)
draft papers; call-up notice; red paper
baby talk; baby language; babbling
dhole (Cuon alpinus); red wolf (Canis rufus)
red tag (esp. one attached to sold goods or discounted products); red label; swords (playing card suit in traditional Japanese gambling decks)
red meat; reddish meat
to rust; to become rusty
(small) red dragonfly; darter (dragonfly of genus Sympetrum, esp. the autumn darter, Sympetrum frequens)
aka-e; late 19th century woodblock prints, using imported aniline dyes; red painting on ceramics
red light; stop light; danger signal
to be meant for each other (of a man and woman); to be connected through fate; to be destined to marry (each other); (lit.) to be tied by the red string (of fate)
making a loss; incurring a deficit
non-legal public road (denoted by a red line on cadastral maps; sometimes no longer physically existing)
deficit operation; operating at a loss; being in the red
red gate (esp. at Tokyo University)
red paper restaurant lantern; cheap eating and drinking place
blood clam (Scapharca broughtonii); ark shell
toy from Fukushima prefecture in the shape of a red cow, also used as a talisman against smallpox
the reds; reddish colors
infantile regression
red birthmark (esp. a hemangioma)
to blush; to redden
dark-brown miso paste
people are formed by their surroundings; walk with the wise and become wise; associate with fools and get in trouble
soup made with red miso paste; red miso soup
grazed skin; abraded skin; bare surface of a mountain; nakedness; nudity
public telephone (orig. red); payphone
rice that has browned (due to age); variety of low-quality foreign rice; red rice (ancient variety of rice); red-kerneled rice
yellow with a tinge of red; orange yellow
red leather; red-dyed leather
red turnip; small red radish
copper (Cu)
red bell pepper; red capsicum
veined rapa whelk (Rapana venosa)
mercurochrome; merbromin solution
scraped skin; graze; grazed skin
communist hunting; red-baiting
red meat; dark meat on poultry (leg, thigh)
Japanese evergreen oak (Quercus acuta)
red Fuji; when Mt Fuji appears red because of the sun's rays (esp. in the early morning from late summer to early autumn)
fish having red flesh (e.g. maguro, katsuo, saba, iwashi)
red shiso; red perilla
disposition to operate in the red; tendency to have chronic deficits
deficit-covering (government) bond
to blush; to redden
redcurrant (Ribes rubrum); red currant
baby hatch (for unwanted newborns); foundling wheel
5-point card with a red tanzaku; red ribbon card; the three 5-point cards with ribbons (high-scoring meld)
stark naked; nude; stripped of all belongings; penniless; naked barley (Hordeum vulgare var. nudum)
any brown or reddish-brown frog (esp. of family Ranidae); Japanese brown frog (Rana japonica); brown frog
menstruation
willowherb (Epilobium pyrricholophum); safflower red; kimono color combination (crimson outside, bluish purple inside)
rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta); rhesus macaque
red face; villain (in kabuki, jōruri, etc.)
red coral (Corallium japonicum)
brown-headed thrush (Turdus chrysolaus); Japanese dace (Tribolodon hakonensis); Japanese fire belly newt (Cynops pyrrhogaster); dysentery
red Vienna sausage
red traffic violation ticket (designating a serious violation); third-class ticket
loss-making corporation; money-losing enterprise; lossmaker
red fox (Vulpes vulpes)
pickled sardines; dried sardines; (lit.) red sardines; (arch.) rusty and blunt sword
scandal sheet; gutter press; yellow press
baby talk; baby language
bright red tinged with yellow; variety of sweet potato with red skin and sweet yellow flesh (product of the Kawagoe region)
Pacific ocean perch (Sebastes alutus); comb goby (Ctenotrypauchen microcephalus); Matsubara's red rockfish (Sebastes matsubarae); Japanese dace (Tribolodon hakonensis); any edible red saltwater fish
red vinegar made from fermented sake lees; plum vinegar with perilla leaves added
starry handfish (Halieutaea stellata)
losses; deficit; amount in the red
vermillion stick; red ink
red deer (Cervus elaphus)
Akasaka Prince Hotel
Red Queen hypothesis (of evolutionary biology)
florid; ruddy
red dora; red suited tile that doubles the score of any hand (usu. a five of each suit)
loss-making line (railway, bus, etc.); unprofitable route
anko-coated mochi (from Ise, Mie pref.)
bloodworm (Halla okadai, species of eunicid worm used as fishing bait); red mite (Trombicula akamushi); chigger mite; harvest mite
loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta)
red sea bream (i.e. the tai, Pagrus major); fish given to a tournament winner as congratulations
red-rumped swallow (Hirundo daurica); striated swallow (Hirundo striolata)
red-black tree; self-balancing binary search tree
the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence; (lit.) the neighbour's flowers are redder
red letter style; cutesy fashion style named after fashion magazines featuring it (whose cover titles are printed in red or pink)
vivid crimson
red soil aggregate; akadama; clay-like volcanic ash soil (used for bonsai, etc.)
to take candy from a baby; to accomplish something with ease; (lit.) to twist a baby's arm
strange thing; eccentric taste; (lit.) red eboshi
even an eccentric head of family must be obeyed
bronze-red (colour, color)
red-light district (marked by a red line on police maps)
trout; Japanese dace (Tribolodon hakonensis); Nibe croaker (Nibea mitsukurii)
red snow (due to microscopic algae, yellow sand, etc.)
redwood; sequoia
red onion; purple onion
Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris)
red stingray (Dasyatis akajei)
Japanese mallotus (Mallotus japonicus); mallotus bark (herbal medicine)
facial gesture of pulling one's eyelid down and sticking out one's tongue
bloodworm (nonbiting midge larva)
brown bear (esp. the Ussuri brown bear, Ursus arctos lasiotus)
spider mite (any mite of family Tetranychidae)
red tassel hung above the southeast corner of the ring
the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence; (lit.) other people's flowers are redder
loss-making business; company operating in the red
trade deficit with Japan
red-eyed puffer (Takifugu chrysops)
reddish; tinged with red; rufous
red admiral (butterfly)
Izu thrush (Turdus celaenops)
internal organs such as heart, liver, kidneys used as food
reed tripe; beef abomasum
red carrageen (Chondrus crispus); red carragheen; red Irish moss
sushi rice with red shiso and pickled cucumber (Akita specialty)
red bell pepper
pale red tinged with grey
red and white-speckled silica
if everyone crosses against the red light together, there's nothing to be afraid of; there's no reason to feel guilty about doing something bad if everyone does it
federal (budget) deficit
Fusarium ear blight; Fusarium head blight; scab
Onagraceae (evening primrose family)
spearflower (Ardisia japonica)
Gymnosporangium rust (plant infection)
it's not my fault; (lit.) this red face is the alcohol's fault
Okinawan yellow cucumber
Red Crystal (politically and religiously neutral emblem used by the International Committee of the Red Cross)
beaked whale; Cuvier's beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris)
plum vinegar with perilla leaves added
Lactarius laeticolorus (edible species of lactarius mushroom)
red-clawed crab (Chiromantes haematocheir)
ruddy kingfisher (Halcyon coromanda)
redback spider (Latrodectus hasselti)
white cloud mountain minnow (Tanichthys albonubes); Canton danio
northern sea nettle (Chrysaora melanaster)
opah (Lampris guttatus); moonfish
blackthroat seaperch (Doederleinia berycoides); rosy seabass
scoring combination consisting of the January, February and March 5-point cards
red river hog (Potamochoerus porcus); bush pig
scalloped hammerhead (Sphyrna lewini); bronze hammerhead shark
common house mosquito (Culex pipiens); northern house mosquito
northern shrimp (Pandalus borealis); sweet shrimp; northern pink prawn; red shrimp; Maine shrimp
crestfish (Lophotus capellei); unicornfish
whiskered velvet shrimp (Metapenaeopsis barbata); red rice prawn
Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris)
Tabanus chrysurus (species of horsefly)
loose-flowered hornbeam (Carpinus laxiflora); akashide
Japanese brown frog (Rana japonica)
scarlet rosefinch (Carpodacus erythrinus); common rosefinch
Gaultheria adenothrix (alpine shrublet in the Ericaceae family)
red barracuda (Sphyraena pinguis); brown barracuda
Amur falcon (Falco amurensis); eastern red-footed falcon
Culex tritaeniorhynchus (species of mosquito)
red-necked wallaby (Macropus rufogriseus); Bennett's wallaby
common redshank (Tringa totanus)
red-masked and black-masked gods (folk belief of the Yaeyama Islands); harvest festival celebrating these gods (held in the 6th lunar month)
red kangaroo (Macropos rufus)
ruddy mongoose (Herpestes smithii)
smooth dandelion (Taraxacum laevigatum)
golden ear (Tremella aurantia)
Raggiana bird-of-paradise (Paradisaea raggiana); Count Raggi's bird-of-paradise
elk (Cervus canadensis); wapiti
red-legged partridge (Alectoris rufa)
blacktip grouper (species of fish, Epinephelus fasciatus)
Eurasian linnet (Carduelis cannabina)
Formica sanguinea (species of red wood ant)
red-necked phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus)
red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)
Chinese sparrowhawk (Accipiter soloensis); gray frog hawk; grey frog hawk
Hodgson's bat (Myotis formosus); Bartel's myotis
red cornetfish (Fistularia petimba)
Harris's hawk (Parabuteo unicinctus); Harris hawk
large Japanese field mouse (Apodemus speciosus)
red wattlebird (Anthochaera carunculata)
red kite (Milvus milvus)
Neurospora crassa (species of red bread mould)
flathead flounder (Hippoglossoides dubius)
bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula rosacea)
Central American squirrel monkey (Saimiri oerstedii)
Longman's beaked whale (Indopacetus pacificus); Indo-Pacific beaked whale; tropical bottlenose whale
red-bellied lemur (Eulemur rubriventer)
red tonguesole (Cynoglossus joyneri)
scrub typhus mite (Leptotrombidium akamushi)
red squid; neon flying squid (Ommastrephes bartramii)
tropical fire ant (Solenopsis geminata)
ruby-throated hummingbird (Archilochus colubris)
type of taro originally from Sulawesi, has large tubers with red eyes
devil weed (Sargassum horneri)
red ruffed lemur (Varecia rubra)
winter cherry (Physalis alkekengi)
Akaike Station (Nagoya)