赤
赤 — jeok
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 붉을 적
- Romanization
- jeok
- English
- red; bare; Kangxi radical 155
- Mandarin
- chì
- Japanese on'yomi
- セキ, シャク
- Japanese kun'yomi
- あか あか- あか.い あか.らむ あか.らめる
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Grade 1
- Newspaper frequency
- #584 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 赤 (155, 0 residual)
- Unicode
- U+8D64
How 赤 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 赤 as a ideographic compound involving 大, 火.
Korean example words with 赤
- 적혈赤血 Korean gloss: 붉은 피
- 적양赤壤 Korean gloss: 붉은 토양
- 적선赤線 Korean gloss: 붉은색으로 그은 선
- 적심赤心 Korean gloss: 거짓 없는 참된 마음
- 적각赤脚 Korean gloss: 여자 종을 달리 이르는 말
- 적담赤痰 Korean gloss: 피가 섞여 붉은빛을 띤 가래
- 적성赤誠 Korean gloss: 마음에서 우러나오는 참된 정성
- 적피赤皮 Korean gloss: 여우의 털가죽을 달리 이르는 말
- 적발赤髮 Korean gloss: 붉은 모발. 또는 머리털이 붉은 이국인
- 적일赤日 Korean gloss: 빛이 붉은 태양. 또는 빛이 강한 태양
- 성적成赤 Korean gloss: 혼인날 신부가 얼굴에 분을 바르고 연지를 찍는 일
- 적족赤族 Korean gloss: 아무도 없는 겨레라는 뜻으로, 한 겨레가 모두 살해됨을 이르는 말
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 赤
- 赤字あかじ (being in) the red; deficit; red letter
- 赤ちゃんあかちゃん baby; infant
- 赤松あかまつ Japanese red pine (Pinus densiflora); Japanese umbrella pine; tanyosho pine
- 真っ赤まっか bright red; deep red; flushed (of face)
- 赤ん坊あかんぼう baby; infant
- 赤軍せきぐん Red Army (Soviet Union, 1918-1946); Workers' and Peasants' Red Army; Japanese Red Army
- 赤いあかい red; crimson; scarlet
- 赤外線せきがいせん infrared rays; infrared radiation
- 赤道せきどう equator; (celestial) equator
- 赤旗あかはた red flag; Red Flag (Communist Party newspaper)
- 赤信号あかしんごう red light (traffic); red light; signal to stop
- 赤色あかいろ red; red color; communist
Other hanja read “적”
Other hanja with radical 赤
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences