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

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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

19 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
seaweed, duckweed
Kun:
On:
ソウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2124 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 藻類 【ソウルイ】 seaweed, algae
  • 藻菌類 【ソウキンルイ】 algal fungi
  • 海藻 【カイソウ】 seaweed
  • 石灰藻 【セッカイソウ】 calcareous algae

Kun reading compounds

  • 藻 【も】 algae, waterweed, seaweed, duckweed
  • 藻掻く 【もがく】 to struggle, to writhe, to wriggle, to squirm, to act frantically, to make desperate efforts
  • 山椒藻 【さんしょうも】 floating watermoss (Salvinia natans)
  • 菅藻 【すがも】 Phyllospadix iwatensis (species of seagrass)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zao3
Korean:
jo

Spanish

  • alga marina

Portuguese

  • algas
  • planta flutuante

French

  • algue
  • lentille d'eau
1531 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
2031 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4098 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1710 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2837 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1657 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1771 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1839 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
674 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3033 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1546 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2116 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2052 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
32401X Morohashi
2384 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5254 New Nelson (John Haig)
2035 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2191 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1920 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1964 2001 Kanji
3k16.8 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-16 SKIP code
4419.4 Four corner code
1-33-84 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
85fb Unicode hex code

10 strokes
Radical:
corpse
Parts:

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 砕屑 【サイセツ】 clastic
  • 落屑 【ラクセツ】 desquamation, skin peeling

Kun reading compounds

  • 屑 【くず】 waste, scrap, garbage, dregs, scum, piece of trash, loser
  • 屑穴子 【くずあなご】 duck-billed eel (Nettastoma parviceps)
  • 野菜くず 【やさいくず】 vegetable scraps
  • 大鋸屑 【おがくず】 sawdust

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xie4
Korean:
seol

Spanish

  • basura
  • desechos
  • chatarra
  • pedazos

Portuguese

French

1395 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
3861 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2680 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
7709X Morohashi
1424 New Nelson (John Haig)
2219 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2330 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3r7.4 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-7 SKIP code
7722.7 Four corner code
1-22-93 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5c51 Unicode hex code