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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

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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