赤色

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Chinese

red; scarlet; bare
red; scarlet; bare; naked
 
colour; dice; look
colour; dice; look; appearance
 
simp. and trad.
(赤色) 		赤 色

Pronunciation

Noun

赤色

  1. red
  2. red, representing revolution or Communism
  3. (Teochew and Singapore, dated in Philippine Hokkien) brown

Usage notes

Usage in the Philippines is dated, mostly only recognized by the elderly and boomer generation Chinese Filipinos. Younger generation Filipino-Chinese usually use 咖啡色 (ka-pé-siak) instead for the color brown.

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 棕色 (“brown”)
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 棕色, 褐色, 咖啡色
Northeastern Mandarin Taiwan 棕色
Singapore 褐色, 棕色
Jilu Mandarin Jinan 棕色
Central Plains Mandarin Luoyang 棕色
Wanrong 駝色
Xining 咖啡色
Southwestern Mandarin Chengdu 鼻煙色
Wuhan 咖啡色, 丘色
Liuzhou 咖啡色
Jianghuai Mandarin Nanjing 咖啡色
Yangzhou 咖啡色, 栗殼色, 枯茶色
Cantonese Guangzhou 咖啡色, 啡色, 豬肝色, 茶色
Hong Kong 啡色, 咖啡色, 茶色
Taishan 啡色
Dongguan 豬肝色
Gan Lichuan 咖啡色
Hakka Meixian 咖啡色
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 豬肝色
Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) 豬肝色
Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) 豬肝色
Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) 豬肝色
Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) 豬肝色
Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) 豬肝色
Hong Kong 豬肝色
Southern Min Xiamen 棕色
Quanzhou 棕色
Zhangzhou 棕色
Taipei (Wanhua) 咖啡色
Kaohsiung 咖啡色
Yilan 咖啡色
Changhua (Lukang) 咖啡色
Taichung 咖啡色
Taichung (Wuqi) 咖啡色
Tainan 塗色, 咖啡色
Taitung 咖啡色
Hsinchu 咖啡色
Penghu (Magong) 咖啡色
Penang (Hokkien) 可可, coklat
Singapore (Hokkien) 咖啡色, 赤色
Manila (Hokkien) 咖啡色, 赤色 dated
Shantou 豬肝色, 赤色
Singapore (Teochew) 赤色
Zhongshan Min Zhongshan (Longdu, Shaxi) 啡色
Southern Pinghua Nanning (Tingzi) 豬肝色, 咖啡色
Wu Shanghai 咖啡色
Danyang 咖啡色
Xiang Loudi 豬肝色

See also

Colors in Chinese · 顏色／颜色 (layout · text)
     白色      灰色      黑色
             紅色／红色, 赤色; 緋紅色／绯红色, 豔紅色／艳红色, 大紅／大红              橙色; 棕色, 褐色              黃色／黄色; 奶油色
             青檸色／青柠色              綠色／绿色             
             青色; 深青色              湛藍色／湛蓝色, 蔚藍色／蔚蓝色, 天藍色／天蓝色              藍色／蓝色
             紫羅蘭色／紫罗兰色; 靛色              洋紅色／洋红色; 紫色              粉紅色／粉红色

Japanese

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Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
赤 色
あか
Grade: 1 		いろ
Grade: 2
kun'yomi

Compound of 赤 (aka, “red”) +‎ 色 (iro, “color”).

Noun

赤(あか)色(いろ) • (akairo) 

  1. (color) Red.
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Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
赤 色
せき
Grade: 1 		しょく
Grade: 2
kan'on

赤 (seki, “red”) +‎ 色 (-shoku, “color”).

Noun

赤(せき)色(しょく) • (sekishoku) 

  1. Red.
  2. Red, communism.
Synonyms

(color):

(communism):

Derived terms
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See also

Colors in Japanese · 色(いろ) (iro) (layout · text)
     白(しろ) (shiro)      灰(はい)色(いろ) (haiiro),
鼠(ねずみ)色(いろ) (nezumiiro) (dated) 		     黒(くろ) (kuro)
             赤(あか) (aka); 深(しん)紅(く) (shinku),
クリムゾン (kurimuzon),
紅(べに)色(いろ) (beniiro),
紅(くれない)色(いろ) (kurenaiiro),
茜(あかね)色(いろ) (akaneiro) 		             オレンジ (orenji),
橙(だいだい)色(いろ) (daidaiiro); 茶(ちゃ)色(いろ) (chairo),
褐(かっ)色(しょく) (kasshoku) 		             黄(き)色(いろ) (kiiro); クリーム色(いろ) (kurīmuiro)
             黄(き)緑(みどり) (kimidori)              緑(みどり) (midori),
青(あお) (ao) (dated) 		             若緑(わかみどり) (wakamidori)
             シアン (shian); 鴨(かも)の羽色(はねいろ) (kamo no hane iro)              水(みず)色(いろ) (mizuiro)              青(あお) (ao)
             菫(すみれ)色(いろ) (sumireiro); 藍(あい)色(いろ) (aiiro),
インジゴ (injigo) 		             マゼンタ (mazenta),
赤紫(あかむらさき) (akamurasaki); 紫(むらさき) (murasaki) 		             ピンク (pinku),
桃(もも)色(いろ) (momoiro)

Korean

Hanja in this term
赤色

Noun

赤色 • (jeoksaek) (hangeul 적색)

  1. hanja form? of 적색 (“red (colour)”)
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