赤

赤 U+8D64, 赤 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8D64 ← 赣 CJK Unified Ideographs 赥 →

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Radical 155 赤

赤 (Kangxi radical 155, 赤+0, 7 strokes, cangjie input 土中弓金 (GLNC), four-corner 4033₁, composition ⿱土⿻小丿(GTJKV) or ⿱土⿰𬼀𰍨(GTJKV) or ⿱土⿻小丨(H))

1. Kangxi radical #155, ⾚.

• Appendix:Chinese radical/赤
• 𪜻, 哧, 𡋽, 𫰭, 㤸, 捇, 浾, 𨹮, 𫥠, 𫐨, 𣇐, 𪲒, 𭮒, 焃, 𤙮, 𭹍, 𦛘, 𭕢, 𥙼, 硳, 𦀗, 𧋒, 𧨃, 䞰, 𨁯, 𨲂, 䤲, 䬉, 𩷧
• 郝, 䚂, 頳, 𪁌, 𡘥, 𭴩, 𡨁, 䓇, 㫱, 𩭑, 𪠇, 𬏭, 𬦃, 䦝 (𬮨)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1213, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36993
• Dae Jaweon: page 1680, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3506, character 1
• Unihan data for U+8D64

Historical forms of the character 赤
Shang	Western Zhou	Spring and Autumn	Warring States		Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)		Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Ancient script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 大 (“person, big”) + 火 (“fire”) – the color of fire (a person by a fire). The original version is 𤆍.

The man on top is simplified as 土 as in 去 and 走 (< 𧺆). The fire is stylized as well, but an intermediate and obsolete variant is 灻.

Perhaps from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *krak (“blood; red”), whence Tibetan ཁྲག (khrag, “blood”) (STEDT; Schuessler, 2007). Related to 赫 (OC *qʰraːɡ, “bright red”) and possibly 奭 (OC *hjaɡ, “majestic; red”).

赤

1. (literary or poetic) red, crimson

   赤字  ―  chìzì  ―  deficit (literally: red figures/numbers)

   赤色的晚霞  ―  chìsè de wǎnxiá  ―  red sunset clouds

   • 莫赤匪狐，莫黑匪烏。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     莫赤匪狐，莫黑匪乌。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Mò chì fěi hú, mò hēi fěi wū.

     Nothing red is seen but foxes,
     Nothing black but crows.

2. (Teochew) brown
3. loyal; sincere

   赤忱  ―  chìchén  ―  absolutely sincere

4. empty; bare

   赤貧／赤贫  ―  chìpín  ―  utterly destitute

   赤手空拳  ―  chìshǒukōngquán  ―  with bare hands and fists

5. to be naked

   赤腳／赤脚  ―  chìjiǎo  ―  to be barefoot

6. (politics) revolutionary; communist; red

   赤化  ―  chìhuà  ―  to communize; to turn Red

7. pure gold
8. (Hokkien) lean (of meat)
9. (Hokkien) to brown (to cook something until it becomes brown)
10. (Hokkien) fierce and unreasonable; tough and unable to talk sense (especially of a woman)
11. (Mainland China Hokkien) poor; impoverished

• (red):

• (poor):

• → Proto-Mien: *sekᴰ (“red”)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “From 刺?”)

赤

1. (Cantonese) painful; aching

   頭赤／头赤 [Cantonese]  ―  tau⁴ cek³   ―  to have a headache

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(First grade kyōiku kanji)

1. red

• Go-on: しゃく (shaku, Jōyō ^†)
• Kan-on: せき (seki, Jōyō)
• Kun: あか (aka, 赤, Jōyō)、あかい (akai, 赤い, Jōyō)、あからむ (akaramu, 赤らむ, Jōyō)、あからめる (akarameru, 赤らめる, Jōyō)
• Nanori: あ (a)、あこ (ako)、あま (ama)

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *aka.

• (Tokyo) あか (Atamadaka – )^[2][3][1]
• IPA^(key):

• Audio:

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• (Kyoto) あか  (Teiki – )^[1]

• (Kyoto) あか​ぁ  (Teiki)^[4][1]

赤(あか) or 赤(アカ) • (aka) 

1. red (color)
2. communism, socialism
3. a communist

赤(あか) • (aka-) 

1. entirely

• 赤(あか)の他人(たにん) (aka no tanin)
• 赤(あか)恥(はじ) (akahaji)
• 赤(あか)裸(はだか) (akahadaka)
• 赤(あか)紫(むらさき) (akamurasaki)

赤 (eumhun 붉을 적 (bulgeul jeok))

1. hanja form^? of 적 (“red”)

(First grade kyōiku kanji)

• Kun: はか゚ー (hakā, 赤)

Inherited from Proto-Ryukyuan *aka, from Proto-Japonic *aka.

• IPA^(key): /hakaː/

赤(はか゚ー) (hakā) 

1. red

(First grade kyōiku kanji)

• Kun: あか (aka, 赤, Jōyō)

Inherited from Proto-Ryukyuan *aka, from Proto-Japonic *aka.

• IPA^(key): /aka/

赤(あか) (aka) 

1. red

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(First grade kyōiku kanji)

• Kun: あか (aka, 赤, Jōyō)

Inherited from Proto-Ryukyuan *aka, from Proto-Japonic *aka.

• IPA^(key):

赤(あか) (aka) 

1. red

(First grade kyōiku kanji)

• Kun: あか (aka, 赤, Jōyō)、あかさん (akasan, 赤さん)

Inherited from Proto-Ryukyuan *aka, from Proto-Japonic *aka.

• IPA^(key): /ʔaka/

赤(あか) (aka) 

1. red

赤: Hán Nôm readings: xích

1. chữ Hán form of xích (“red”).

(First grade kyōiku kanji)

• Kun: あか (aka, 赤, Jōyō)

Inherited from Proto-Ryukyuan *aka, from Proto-Japonic *aka.

• IPA^(key): /ʔaka/

赤(あか) (aka) 

1. red

(First grade kyōiku kanji)

• Kun: あが (aga, 赤)

Inherited from Proto-Ryukyuan *aka, from Proto-Japonic *aka.

• IPA^(key): /aɡa/

赤(あが) (aga) 

1. red