Jisho

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7 strokes
Radical:
red, naked
Parts:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N4
584 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 赤軍 【セキグン】 Red Army (Soviet Union, 1918-1946), Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, Japanese Red Army, JRA
  • 赤外線 【セキガイセン】 infrared rays, infrared radiation
  • 七赤 【シチセキ】 seventh of nine traditional astrological signs (corresponding to Venus and west)
  • 日赤 【ニッセキ】 Japanese Red Cross Society (abbr), Nisseki
  • 赤銅 【シャクドウ】 shakudo, gold-copper alloy, often with a blue patina
  • 赤銅色 【シャクドウイロ】 brown, tan

Kun reading compounds

  • 赤 【あか】 red, crimson, scarlet, red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange), Red (i.e. communist), red light (traffic), red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading), (in) the red, complete, total, perfect, obvious, copper, red 5-point card
  • 銅 【どう】 copper (Cu), bronze (medal)
  • 紅赤 【べにあか】 beniaka, variety of sweet potato with red skin and sweet yellow flesh; product of the Kawagoe region, bright red tinged with yellow
  • 真赤 【まあか】 bright red, deep red
  • 赤い 【あかい】 red, crimson, scarlet, vermilion, Red, communist
  • 赤色 【あかいろ】 red, red color (colour), communism, the left
  • 赤らむ 【あからむ】 to become red, to redden, to blush
  • 赤らめる 【あからめる】 to blush, to redden

Readings

Japanese names:
あ、 あこ、 あま
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
chi4
Korean:
jeog

Spanish

  • rojo
  • enrojecer
  • enrojecerse
  • sonrojarse

Portuguese

  • vermelho

French

  • rouge
35 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
51 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
46 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
476 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4534 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
275 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
254 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
443 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.2 Japanese for Busy People
207 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
207 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
46 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1751 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2719 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1389 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1876 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1759 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
36993 Morohashi
2193 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5840 New Nelson (John Haig)
1743 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1880 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
406 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
68 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1441 2001 Kanji
3b4.10 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-4 SKIP code
4023.1 Four corner code
4033.1 Four corner code
1-32-54 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8d64 Unicode hex code

16 strokes
Radical:
silk 糸 (糹)
Parts:
horizontal, woof, left & right, (parallels of) latitude, prediction
Kun:
よこいとぬき
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1430 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 横糸 【ヨコイト】 weft, woof (crosswise threads on a loom)
  • 緯度 【イド】 latitude (nav.)
  • 北緯 【ホクイ】 north latitude
  • 経緯 【ケイイ】 details, particulars, sequence of events, circumstances, situation, how things got this way, longitude and latitude, warp and weft, warp and woof

Kun reading compounds

  • 横糸 【よこいと】 weft, woof (crosswise threads on a loom)
  • 横糸 【よこいと】 weft, woof (crosswise threads on a loom)
  • 経緯 【たてぬき】 warp and weft, warp and woof

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
wei3
Korean:
wi

Spanish

  • latitud
  • paralelo de latitud

Portuguese

  • horizontal
  • trama
  • esquerda & direita
  • latitude

French

  • horizontal
  • trame (tissage)
  • gauche et droite
  • latitude
1009 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1680 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3579 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1636 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1640 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2744 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1054 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1097 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1570 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1554 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1782 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
951 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1285 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1660 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
27682 Morohashi
1407 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4566 New Nelson (John Haig)
1645 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1774 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1843 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2755 2001 Kanji
6a10.7 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-10 SKIP code
2495.6 Four corner code
1-16-62 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7def Unicode hex code