赤 – Kanji details

Keyword

red

Info

Frequency	Top 300-400
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 (469 in total)

赤あかい

red; crimson; Red; communist; (arch.) beautiful

真まっ赤か

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

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

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Examples (200 in total)

あなたの唇くちびるは赤あかいです。

Your lips are red.

下したの方ほうに何なにか赤あかいものが見みえますか。

Can you see something red down below?

君きみの目めは泣ないて赤あかいよ。

Your eyes are red with crying.

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