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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
- —紅冠鳥cardinal (bird) (Cardinalis cardinalis)
- —鮮紅色bright red; bright scarlet
- —淡紅色pink; rose
- —東天紅early morning crowing of a rooster; brown domestic fowl (chicken breed)
- —猩紅熱scarlet fever
- —退紅色(light) pink
- —千日紅globe amaranth (Gomphrena globosa)
- —紅一点the lone woman (e.g. bright flower) in a group
- —紅毛人Westerner (esp. a Dutchman)
- —紅衛兵(Chinese) Red Guards
- —深紅色scarlet; deep crimson
- —暗紅色dark red
- —寒紅梅winter plum tree with reddish blossoms
- —紅毛船foreign ship (originally only of Dutch ships, but later referring to all foreign ships)
- —紅羅雲red-whiskered bulbul (Pycnonotus jocosus)
- —紅樹林mangrove forest
- —紅梅焼kōbaiyaki (senbei punched into shapes, e.g. plum)
- —紅染月eighth lunar month
- —金紅石rutile
- —紅褐色brownish-red