| 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) |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N4
584 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
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
- Korean:
- jeog
Spanish
- rojo
- enrojecer
- enrojecerse
- sonrojarse
Portuguese
- vermelho
French
- rouge
| 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 |
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 鳶飛魚躍 【エンピギョヤク】 all of creation following their original natures, living and enjoying themselves freely, the kites fly and the fish leap, Heaven's will that all of creation shall follow their original natures and live freely, as a ruler's benevolence spreads, the people will find their places in the land based on their abilities
Kun reading compounds
- 鳶 【とび】 black kite (Milvus migrans), construction worker, scaffold erector, firefighter, fire hook, reddish brown, Inverness cape, filcher, sneak thief, pilferer
- 鳶色 【とびいろ】 reddish brown
- 赤鳶 【あかとび】 red kite (Milvus milvus)
- 糞鳶 【くそとび】 common buzzard (Buteo buteo)
- 鳶 【とび】 black kite (Milvus migrans), construction worker, scaffold erector, firefighter, fire hook, reddish brown, Inverness cape, filcher, sneak thief, pilferer
- 鳶足 【とんびあし】 sitting position similar to seiza (but with both legs splayed out slightly and one's backside resting directly on the ground)
- 昼鳶 【ひるとんび】 sneak thief, daytime prowler, pickpocketing
Readings
- Korean:
- yeon
Spanish
Portuguese
French
| 1559 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 2179 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 3919 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2727 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 46674 | Morohashi |
| 6938 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 2836 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 2851 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 11b3.1 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 3-3-11 | SKIP code |
| 4332.7 | Four corner code |
| 1-38-48 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 9cf6 | Unicode hex code |