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赤 kanji
red
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 7
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
On readings
セキシャク
Kun readings
あかあか-あかいあからむあからめる
Words with 赤
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —赤鉄鉱hematite
- —赤リンred phosphorus
- —大赤斑(Jupiter's) Great Red Spot
- —赤水晶Red Crystal (politically and religiously neutral emblem used by the International Committee of the Red Cross)
- —赤芽球erythroblast (immature nucleate erythrocyte)
- —引赤薬rubefacient (substance that causes redness of skin)
- —発赤薬rubefacient (substance that causes redness of skin)
- —赤銅鉱cuprite; red copper; red copper ore
- —赤色灯red light (esp. on emergency vehicles)
- —近赤外near infrared; NIR
- —赤ばんbieberite
- —橙赤色orange-red; reddish orange; fire red
- —黄赤色yellowish red; poppy red
- —赤報隊Sekihōtai (short-lived pro-imperial volunteer corps formed during the Boshin War)
- —赤面症tendency to blush easily; chronic blushing; erythrophobia
- —赤外発散infrared divergence
- —赤十字社Red Cross (Society)
- —赤道気団equatorial air mass
- —赤手空拳barehanded; having no wealth or position to rely on (aside from one's own resourcefulness) (when embarking on something)
- —赤方偏移red shift; redshift