赤

See also: 亦

Translingual

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Red Kanji Symbol

Etymology

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

Han character

赤 (radical 155 赤+0, 7 strokes, cangjie input 土中弓金 (GLNC), four-corner 4033₁)

1. red
2. bare
3. communist, red

References

• 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

Synonyms

• 紅 / 红
• 朱
• 緋
• 丹

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		赤

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chì, cè (chi⁴, ce⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔˋ, ㄘㄜˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cek³, cik³
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): chhak
• Min Nan (POJ): chhiah / chhek

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: chì
    • Zhuyin: ㄔˋ
    • Wade-Giles: ch'ih⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyh
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩⁵¹/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: cè
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄜˋ
    • Wade-Giles: ts'ê⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tseh
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɤ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: cek³, cik³
    • Yale: chek, chik
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsek⁸, tsik⁸
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɛːk̚³/, /t͡sʰɪk̚³/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhak
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /t͡sʰak̚²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiah / chhek
    • Tâi-lô: tshiah / tshik
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕʰiaʔ³²/, /t͡ɕʰɪk̚³²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕʰiaʔ³²/, /t͡ɕʰɪk̚³²/
  • Note: chhiah - vernacular, chhek - literary.

Middle Chinese pronunciation (赤, reconstructed)
Character (赤), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 昌 (24) Final: 昔 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 昌石切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/t͡ɕʰiᴇk̚/	/t͡ɕʰi̯ɛk̚/	/t͡ɕʰiɛk̚/	/t͡ɕʰiɛk̚/	/cʰiajk̚/	/t͡ɕʰĭɛk̚/	/t͡ɕʰiæk̚/

Old Chinese pronunciation (赤, reconstructed)
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
赤					1477					赤					鐸					0					尺					/*kʰljaɡ/

Definitions

赤

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Usage notes

In modern standard Chinese, 紅／红, not 赤, is not typically used to mean "red".

Examples:

我買了一個紅蘋果。 [MSC, trad.]

我买了一个红苹果。 [MSC, simp.]

Wǒ mǎi le yīge hóng píngguǒ. [Pinyin]

I bought a red apple.

紅色是用作危險的警告色。 [MSC, trad.]

红色是用作危险的警告色。 [MSC, simp.]

Hóngsè shì yòngzuò wēixiǎn de jǐnggào sè. [Pinyin]

Red is used as a warning colour of danger.

赤 is more commonly used in slogans, poem and coinages to mean red.

Examples:

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

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

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

Compounds

• 赤白痢
• 赤背
• 赤膊
• 赤膊上阵
• 赤潮
• 赤忱
• 赤诚
• 赤带
• 赤胆忠心
• 赤道
• 赤道几尼亚
• 赤地
• 赤光光
• 赤红
• 赤狐
• 赤脚
• 赤脚医生
• 赤金
• 赤佬, 赤老
• 赤痢
• 赤练蛇
• 赤磷
• 赤露
• 赤裸 (chìluǒ)

• 赤裸裸
• 赤霉素
• 赤贫
• 赤热
• 赤日
• 赤色
• 赤芍
• 赤身
• 赤身裸体
• 赤手
• 赤手空拳
• 赤松
• 赤条精光
• 赤条条
• 赤铁矿
• 赤铜矿
• 赤县
• 赤小豆
• 赤心
• 赤扬
• 赤子
• 赤字 (chìzì)
• 赤足

References

• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

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Kanji

赤

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. red

Readings

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

References

JIS: 4056 Kuten: 3254 Shift JIS: 90D4 EUC-JP: C0D6 Frequency: 584 Nelson: 4534

New Nelson: 5840 Halpern: 2193 Halpern Learners: 1389 Heisig: 1743 Tuttle Kanji Dictionary: 3b4.10

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

Compounds

Compounds

赤羽 赤烏 赤化 赤禍 赤外線 (せきがいせん, sekigaisen) 赤血球 (せっけっきゅう, sekkekkyū) 赤日 (せきじつ, sekijitsu) 赤手 赤十字 (the Red Cross) 赤心 赤身 赤沈 赤鉄鉱 赤道 (せきどう, sekidō) 赤銅

赤銅色 赤熱 赤飯 赤貧 赤面 (せきめん, sekimen; あかづら, akadsura) 赤裸々 赤痢 (せきり, sekiri) 赤燐 赤子 (baby) 赤字 (あかじ, akaji) 赤土 赤の他人 (あかのたにん, akanotanin) 赤恥

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• Standard Accent: あ​か (Atamadaka)
• IPA^(key): /aꜜ.ka/, [ä˦.kä˨]

• あか

  (file)

Noun

赤 (hiragana あか, romaji aka)

1. the colour red

Derived terms

• 赤 (あか)い (akai): red (adjective)

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Korean

Hanja

赤 (jeok)
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 적 (revised: jeok, McCune-Reischauer: chŏk, Yale: cek)

• Name (hangeul): 븕을()

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Vietnamese

Han character

赤 (xích)

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