字の旅3,000 years in four forms
Oracle bone · ShangShang · c. 1200 BCE後2.18.8 合28195 何組
Oracle bone and bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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赤
赤 red
あか aka
7 strokesRadical of 2 kanjiPart of 1
Your ink in 赤0% painted · 0 of 2 familiar
Origin · sourced
Ideogrammic compound會意
The color of fire (a person by a fire). The original version is 𤆍.
Built from 大 “person, big” + 火 “fire”
Source: Wiktionary, 赤 (rev. 93934987), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Imagine a person standing so close to a blazing bonfire that their entire body begins to glow with a deep, vibrant red! When you see these strokes, think of heat, passion, and the primary color of fire. It often appears in kanji related to brightness, burning, or blushing with emotion.”
Where it sits in a kanji
Adds meanings related to the color red, heat, intensity, or the physical state of glowing.
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Every kanji with 赤 as its radical
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