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紅 kanji
crimson, deep red
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
コウク
Kun readings
べにくれないあかい
Words with 紅
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —浅紅light red
- —紅斑red spots; erythema
- —紅霞crimson mist; crimson-tinted clouds (e.g. at sunset)
- —蒼紅blue and red; azure and crimson
- —紅樹mangrove (esp. the black mangrove, Bruguiera gymnorrhiza); tree with red leaves or flowers
- —紅雪red snow (due to microscopic algae, yellow sand, etc.)
- —視紅visual purple; rhodopsin
- —紅学redology; study of the novel Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin, one of China's four great classical novels
- —紅楼family or brothel with a beautiful woman; vermillion-lacquered mansion
- —紅土laterite
- —紅紫crimson and purple; red-purple; magenta
- —紅軍Red Army; Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army
- —淡紅pink; rose
- —紅帽red hat
- —紅龍red dragon
- —紅血red blood; blood
- —丹紅red; deep red; crimson
- —紅花red flower; safflower (esp. as an ingredient in traditional Chinese medicine)
- —紅鏡Sun
- —紅旗Red Flag (Chinese Communist Party bulletin; 1958-1988); Hongqi (Chinese luxury car marque)