赤

赤 (Kangxi radical 155, 赤+0, 7 strokes, cangjie input 土中弓金 (GLNC), four-corner 4033₁, composition ⿱土⿻小丿(GTJKV) or ⿱土⿻小丨(H))

1. Kangxi radical #155, ⾚.

• Appendix:Chinese radical/赤
• 𪜻, 哧, 𡋽, 𫰭, 㤸, 捇, 浾, 𨹮, 𫥠, 𫐨, 𣇐, 𪲒, 𭮒, 焃, 𤙮, 𭹍, 𦛘, 𭕢, 𥙼, 硳, 𦀗, 𧋒, 𧨃, 䞰, 𨁯, 𨲂, 䤲, 䬉, 𩷧
• 郝, 䚂, 頳, 𪁌, 𡘥, 𭴩, 𡨁, 䓇, 㫱, 𩭑, 𪠇, 𬏭, 𬦃, 䦝 (𬮨)

• KangXi: page 1213, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36993
• Dae Jaweon: page 1680, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3506, character 1
• Unihan data for U+8D64

Historical forms of the character 赤
Shang	Western Zhou	Spring and Autumn	Warring States		Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)		Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Ancient script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 大 (“person, big”) + 火 (“fire”) – the color of fire (a person by a fire).

Perhaps from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *krak (“blood; red”), whence Tibetan ཁྲག (khrag, “blood”) (STEDT; Schuessler, 2007). Related to 赫 (OC *qʰraːɡ, “bright red”) and possibly 奭 (OC *hjaɡ, “majestic; red”).

赤

1. (literary or poetic) red

   赤字  ―  chìzì  ―  deficit (literally: red figures/numbers)

   赤色的晚霞  ―  chìsè de wǎnxiá  ―  red sunset clouds

   • 莫赤匪狐，莫黑匪烏。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     莫赤匪狐，莫黑匪乌。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Mò chì fěi hú, mò hēi fěi wū. [Pinyin]

     Nothing red is seen but foxes,
     Nothing black but crows.

2. (Teochew) brown
3. loyal; sincere

   赤忱  ―  chìchén  ―  absolutely sincere

4. empty; bare

   赤貧／赤贫  ―  chìpín  ―  utterly destitute

   赤手空拳  ―  chìshǒukōngquán  ―  with bare hands and fists

5. to be naked

   赤腳／赤脚  ―  chìjiǎo  ―  to be barefoot

6. (politics) revolutionary; communist; red

   赤化  ―  chìhuà  ―  to communize; to turn Red

7. pure gold

• (red):

• → Proto-Mien: *sekᴰ (“red”)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “From 刺?”)

赤

1. (Cantonese) painful; aching

   頭赤／头赤 [Cantonese]  ―  tau⁴ cek³ [Jyutping]  ―  to have a headache

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. red

• Go-on: しゃく (shaku, Jōyō ^†)
• Kan-on: せき (seki, Jōyō)
• Kun: あか (aka, 赤, Jōyō); あかい (akai, 赤い, Jōyō); あからむ (akaramu, 赤らむ, Jōyō); あからめる (akarameru, 赤らめる, Jōyō)
• Nanori: あ (a); あこ (ako); あま (ama)

• (Tokyo) あ​か [áꜜkà] (Atamadaka – [1])[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [a̠ka̠]

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• (Kyoto) あか [àkáꜜ][3]

赤(あか) • (aka) 

1. red (color)
2. communism, socialism
3. a communist

• 赤(あか)い (akai): red (adjective)
• 赤(あか)子(ご) (akago)
• 赤(あか)字(じ) (akaji)
• 赤(あか)ちゃん (akachan)
• 赤(あか)土(つち) (akatsuchi), 赭(あか)土(つち) (akatsuchi)
• 赤(あか)面(つら) (akatsura), 赭(あか)面(つら) (akatsura)

赤(あか) • (aka-) 

1. entirely

• 赤(あか)の他人(たにん) (aka no tanin)
• 赤(あか)恥(はじ) (akahaji)
• 赤(あか)裸(はだか) (akahadaka)

赤 (eumhun 붉을 적 (bulgeul jeok))

1. Hanja form^? of 적 (“red”).

赤

• Kun: はか゚ー (hakā, 赤)

• IPA^(key): /hakaː/

赤 (hiragana はか゚ー, romaji hakā)

1. red

赤

• Kun: あか (aka, 赤, Jōyō)

• IPA^(key): /aka/

赤 (hiragana あか, romaji aka)

1. red

赤

• Kun: あか (aka, 赤, Jōyō)

• IPA^(key): /axa/

赤 (hiragana あか, romaji aka)

1. red

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

• Kun: あか (aka, 赤, Jōyō); あかさん (akasan, 赤さん)

• IPA^(key): /ʔaka/

赤 (hiragana あか, rōmaji aka)

1. red

赤: Hán Nôm readings: xích

1. red

赤

• Kun: あか (aka, 赤, Jōyō)

• IPA^(key): /ʔaka/

赤 (hiragana あか, romaji aka)

1. red

赤

• Kun: あが (aga, 赤)

• IPA^(key): /aɡa/

赤 (hiragana あが, romaji aga)

1. red