| 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
- 梅雨 【ツユ】 (East Asian) rainy season (in Japan, usu. from early June to mid-July), rain during the rainy season
- ばい菌 【バイキン】 germ, germs, bacteria, bug, something dirty or harmful, vermin
- 防カビ 【ボウカビ】 mold prevention, mildew prevention
- 防カビ 【ボウカビ】 mold prevention, mildew prevention
- 青カビ 【アオカビ】 blue mold, blue mould, penicillium
Kun reading compounds
- 黴 【かび】 mold, mould, mildew
- カビが生える 【カビがはえる】 to get moldy, to get mouldy, to get out-of-fashion
- 防カビ 【ぼうカビ】 mold prevention, mildew prevention
- 青カビ 【あおカビ】 blue mold, blue mould, penicillium
- 黴びる 【かびる】 to get moldy (mouldy), to get musty, to develop mildew
- 黴びる 【かびる】 to get moldy (mouldy), to get musty, to develop mildew
Readings
- Korean:
- mi
Spanish
Portuguese
French
| 1643 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 1008 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 48196 | Morohashi |
| 814 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 7065 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 3i20.1 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 1-3-20 | SKIP code |
| 2824.0 | Four corner code |
| 1-83-64 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 9ef4 | Unicode hex code |