赤

赤 (radical 155, 赤+0, 7 strokes, cangjie input 土中弓金 (GLNC), four-corner 4033₁, composition ⿱土⿻小丿(GTJKV) or ⿱土⿻小丨(H))

1. Kangxi radical #155, ⾚.

• 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

Historical forms of the character 赤
Shang	Western Zhou	Spring and Autumn	Warring States		Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)		Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Chu Slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Ancient script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

Connected with Proto-Sino-Tibetan *krak (“blood; red”) in the STEDT database, whence Tibetan ཁྲག (khrag, “blood”). Also compare 赫 (OC *qʰraːɡ, “bright red”) and 奭 (OC *hjaɡ, “majestic; red”).

赤

1. (literary or poetic) red

   赤字  ―  chìzì  ―  deficit (literally: red figures/numbers)

   赤色的晚霞  ―  chìsè de wǎnxiá  ―  red sunset clouds

2. loyal
3. empty
4. bare; naked
5. (politics) revolutionary; communist; red

   赤色政權 / 赤色政权  ―  chìsèzhèngquán  ―  communist regime (literally: red regime)

6. pure gold

• (red): 紅／红 (hóng), 緋／绯 (fēi)

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. red

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

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

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) あ​か [áꜜkà] (Atamadaka – [1])[1][2]
  • IPA^(key): [a̠ka̠]

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• (Kyoto) あか [àkáꜜ][3]

赤 (hiragana あか, katakana アカ, rōmaji aka)

1. red (color)
2. communism, socialism
3. a communist

• 赤 (あか)い (akai): red (adjective)
• 赤 (あか)子 (ご) (akago)
• 赤 (あか)字 (じ) (akaji)
• 赤 (あか)ちゃん (akachan)
• 赤 (あか)土 (つち) (akatsuchi), 赭 (あか)土 (つち) (akatsuchi)
• 赤 (あか)面 (つら) (akatsura), 赭 (あか)面 (つら) (akatsura)

赤 (hiragana あか, rōmaji aka-)

1. entirely

• 赤 (あか)の他 (た)人 (にん) (aka no tanin)
• 赤 (あか)恥 (はじ) (akahaji)
• 赤 (あか)裸 (はだか) (akahadaka)

赤 • (jeok)

• Eumhun:
  • Sound (hangeul): 적 (revised: jeok, McCune–Reischauer: chŏk, Yale: cek)
  • Name (hangeul): 붉을

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赤

• Kun: はか゚ー (hakaa)

• IPA^(key): /hakaː/

赤 (hiragana はか゚ー, romaji hakaa)

1. red

赤

• Kun: あか (aka)

• IPA^(key): /aka/

赤 (hiragana あか, romaji aka)

1. red

赤

• Kun: あか (aka)

• IPA^(key): /ʔaka/

赤 (hiragana あか, romaji aka)

1. red

赤 (xích)

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赤

• Kun: あか (aka)

• IPA^(key): /ʔaka/

赤 (hiragana あか, romaji aka)

1. red

赤

• Kun: あが (aga)

• IPA^(key): /aɡa/

赤 (hiragana あが, romaji aga)

1. red