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赤

Red

あか (aka), あかい (akai)

JLPT N4

Interesting Fact

🔴 The kanji 赤 may have originated from the image of a newborn baby. Ancient people noticed that newborns often had reddish skin, so a character connected to a baby eventually came to represent the color red itself. Thousands of years later, that symbol became the modern kanji 赤.

Memory Trick

🌋 A volcano erupts, and red lava spills across the ground. The top of 赤 is the earth, and the bottom is molten lava spreading everywhere.

Readings

Onyomi: セキ (seki), シャク (shaku)

Kunyomi: あか (aka), あかい (akai)

Example Words

赤
あか (aka)
Red
赤い
あかい (akai)
Red (adjective)
赤ちゃん
あかちゃん (akachan)
Baby
赤字
あかじ (akaji)
Deficit

Example Sentence

赤い 車が あります。

あかい くるまが あります。

akai kuruma ga arimasu

There is a red car.

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