赤 – Kanji details

Keyword

red

Info

Frequency	Top 200-300
Type	Kyōiku (1st grade) ?
Kanken	Level 10
Heisig	1880
Readings	あか (79%) か (14%) せき (4%)
	しゃくせっしゃあしゃっじゃっあかっ

Composed of

一

one

亦

bloody knife

Mnemonic components

土

earth

亦

bloody knife

Mnemonic

A bloody knife stained the earth red with all of the blood dripping from it.

Used in kanji (4 in total)

pardon

incandescent

???

get red

Used in vocabulary (538 in total)

赤あかい

red; crimson; scarlet; Red; communist

赤あか

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

真まっ赤か

bright red; deep red; flushed (of face); downright (e.g. lie); complete; utter

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