Common word› JLPT N5 › Freq. Frequency Top 5,000 Conjugation 赤い · i-adjective
Form Positive Negative Dictionary 赤あか い 赤あか くない Polite 赤あか いです 赤あか くないです also 赤あか くありません Past polite 赤あか かったです 赤あか くなかったです also 赤あか くありませんでした Past 赤あか かった 赤あか くなかった Te-form 赤あか くて 赤あか くなくて Adverbial 赤あか く Conditional 赤あか ければ 赤あか くなければ Tara conditional 赤あか かったら 赤あか くなかったら
Usage patterns 顔かお が 赤あか くなる one's face turns red (from blushing, anger, embarrassment, etc.)
She blushed when she was complimented.
目め が 赤あか い one's eyes are red/bloodshot (from crying, tiredness, etc.)
My eyes are red from crying.
空そら が 赤あか く 染そ まる the sky turns red (as at sunset)
The sky turned red with the setting sun.
頬ほお が 赤あか い one's cheeks are red/rosy
Her cheeks are red from the cold.
Kanji 朱 vermilion, cinnabar, scarlet Word family· 224 red; crimson; scarlet · red-containing color; reddish · communist; Red · red light (traffic) · red ink; in the red · complete; total; utter · copper · red 5-point card (hanafuda)
baby; infant
deficit; in the red · red writing; red letter · red corrections; red ink corrections
red; red color · communist; socialist; left-wing
baby; infant
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red wine
Japanese red pine; Pinus densiflora
red hair; ginger hair
red light (traffic) · red light; stop signal; danger sign
red flesh (fish); red-fleshed fish; lean meat · heartwood
bishop wood (Bischofia javanica) · barked tree · red tree
reddish tinge; slight redness; blush
pulling down one's eyelid and sticking out one's tongue
red eyes; bloodshot eyes · red-eye (in photography) · red mullet (Chelon haematocheilus) · akanbe (facial gesture)
blush; redden (one's face)
red clay; red earth; laterite · dark-red paint
pulp fiction; dime novel · akahon; university entrance exam workbook (Kyōgakusha) · Edo-period storybook with red cover · Michelin Red Guide
draft papers; call-up notice · red paper
dark red; dark brown; reddish brown
red dragonfly · darter; meadowhawk
dark-brown miso paste; red miso
red nose
red cap; red hat · railway porter; redcap
red tide
bright red; deep red
red gate; Akamon (gate of the University of Tokyo)
red cloth; red background
blood clam; ark shell
red face; flushed face
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Written forms 赤あか い Usage 95%
Standard kanji spelling for general 'red'.
紅あか い Usage 3%
Often used for deep red or crimson, especially in literary or aesthetic contexts.
あかい Usage 1%
朱あか い Usage <1%
rarely-used kanji form
Rarely used kanji for vermilion red.
赭あか い Usage <1%
search-only kanji form
Search-only kanji form for reddish brown.
アカイ Usage <1%
緋あか い Usage <1%
search-only kanji form
Search-only kanji form for scarlet.
Etymology From Old Japanese. The root あか (aka) is shared with the noun 赤 (aka, 'red'). The adjective form 赤い (akai) developed from this root.
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