赤

Meanings

1. red; crimson; scarlet
2. red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange)
3. Red (i.e. communist)
4. red light (traffic)
5. red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading); (in) the red

Part of speech: noun, no-adjective

Kanji

• 赤

  Meanings

  red

  On reading

  セキ、シャク

  Kun reading

  あか、あか-、あか.い、あか.らむ、あか.らめる

  Strokes

  7

Example sentences

• 信号機が赤の間は道路を渡るな。

  Don't cross the road when the signal is red.

  Tatoeba #145704 · CC BY 2.0 FR

• サダムが脅威でないなどと言うのは、赤がかった反戦運動の人達くらい。

  It's only the anti-war pinkos who say things like Saddam isn't a threat.

  Tatoeba #74141 · CC BY 2.0 FR