Jisho

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9 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
西
madder, red dye, Turkey red
Kun:
あかね
On:
セン
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
2422 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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Stroke order

Kun reading compounds

  • 茜 【あかね】 madder (esp. Japanese madder, Rubia argyi), madder (red color)
  • 茜色 【あかねいろ】 madder red, dark red, crimson
  • 秋茜 【あきあかね】 var. of red dragonfly (Sympetrum frequens)
  • 蝦夷茜 【えぞあかね】 yellow-winged darter (Sympetrum flaveolum)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
qian4, xi1
Korean:
cheon

Spanish

  • tinte rojo
  • rojo brillante

Portuguese

French

3932 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
928 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2216 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2811 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1448 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1951 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
30871X Morohashi
2261 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5019 New Nelson (John Haig)
2407 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2487 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3k6.3 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-6 SKIP code
4460.1 Four corner code
1-16-11 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
831c Unicode hex code