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

10 strokes
Radical:
fire 火 (灬)
Parts:
crow, raven
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
2042 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 烏克蘭 【ウクライナ】 Ukraine
  • 烏焉魯魚 【ウエンロギョ】 miswriting a word, using the wrong kanji to write a word
  • 屋烏 【オクウ】 crow perched on a roof
  • 愛及屋烏 【アイキュウオクウ】 infatuation, doting
  • 烏秋 【オウチュウ】 black drongo (Dicrurus macrocercus)
  • 烏滸 【オコ】 foolish thing, stupid thing, absurdity

Kun reading compounds

  • 烏 【からす】 crow (Corvus spp.), raven
  • 烏河豚 【からす】 Chinese puffer (Takifugu chinensis)
  • 闇夜に烏 【やみよにからす】 something indistinct, a crow in a pitch-black night
  • 八咫の烏 【やたのからす】 Yatagarasu (mythical raven who aided Emperor Jimmu on his eastern expedition), three-legged crow inhabiting the sun in Chinese mythology
  • 安んぞ 【いずくんぞ】 how, why

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
wu1, wu4
Korean:
o

Spanish

  • cuervo

Portuguese

French

  • corneille
  • corbeau
229 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1256 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
4088 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2811 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1963 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
18998 Morohashi
3421 New Nelson (John Haig)
1944 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2094 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4d6.5 The Kanji Dictionary
3-6-4 SKIP code
2732.7 Four corner code
1-17-08 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
70cf Unicode hex code

13 strokes
Radical:
shell
Parts:
burglar, rebel, traitor, robber
On:
ゾク
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2045 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 賊 【ゾク】 thief, robber, burglar, rebel, insurgent, traitor
  • 賊害 【ゾクガイ】 harm, killing, destruction at the hands of rebels
  • 空賊 【クウゾク】 air pirate, air piracy
  • 流賊 【リュウゾク】 roving robber, marauder

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zei2, ze2
Korean:
jeog

Spanish

  • ladrón
  • rebelde
  • traidor

Portuguese

  • assaltante
  • rebelde
  • traidor
  • ladrão

French

  • bandit
  • rebelle
  • traitre
  • cambrioleur
  • voleur
1537 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1999 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4508 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1426 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1782 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1807 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1946 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1584 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1744 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1932 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1029 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1391 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
363 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
36759 Morohashi
1530 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5801 New Nelson (John Haig)
357 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
381 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1669 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3959 2001 Kanji
7b6.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-7-6 SKIP code
6385.0 Four corner code
1-34-17 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8cca Unicode hex code