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赤
赤
See also: 亦
Translingual
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Red Kanji Symbol
Han character
赤 (radical 155 赤+0, 7 strokes, cangjie input 土中弓金 (GLNC), four-corner 40331)
- Kangxi radical #155, ⾚ (“red”).
References
- KangXi: page 1213, character 22
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36993
- Dae Jaweon: page 1680, character 12
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3506, character 1
- Unihan data for U+8D64
Synonyms
Chinese
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赤 | |
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Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 赤
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| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (赤) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 浾 | *sqraː |
| 嚇 | *qʰraːɡs, *qʰraːɡ |
| 赦 | *hljaɡs |
| 郝 | *qʰljaɡ, *kʰljaɡ, *hljaɡ |
| 赫 | *qʰraːɡ |
| 爀 | *qʰraːɡ |
| 赤 | *kʰljaɡ |
| 烾 | *kʰljaɡ |
| 螫 | *qʰjaːɡ |
| 赥 | *qʰleːɡ |
| 捇 | *qʰʷreːɡ |
| 焃 | *qʰʷreːɡ |
Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 大 (“person, big”) + 火 (“fire”) – the color of fire (a person by a fire).
Etymology
Connected with Proto-Sino-Tibetan *krak (“blood; red”) in the STEDT database, whence Tibetan ཁྲག (khrag, “blood”). Also compare 赫 (OC *qʰraːɡ, “bright red”) and 奭 (OC *hjaɡ, “majestic; red”).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): cek3, cik3
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhak
- Min Dong (BUC): chiáh / chék
- Min Nan (POJ): chhiah / chhek
- Wu (Wiktionary): tshaq (T4)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄔˋ
- Wade-Giles: ch'ih4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyh
- IPA (key): /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: cek3, cik3
- Yale: chek, chik
- Cantonese Pinyin: tsek8, tsik8
- IPA (key): /t͡sʰɛːk̚³/, /t͡sʰɪk̚³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhak
- Hakka Romanization System: cag`
- Hagfa Pinyim: cag5
- IPA: /t͡sʰak̚²/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: chiáh / chék
- IPA (key): /t͡sʰiɑʔ²⁴/, /t͡sʰɛiʔ²⁴/
- Note: chiáh - vernacular (“red and bright” (of gold)); chék - literary.
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiah / chhek
- Tâi-lô: tshiah / tshik
- Phofsit Daibuun: chiaq, zheg
- IPA (Xiamen): /t͡ɕʰiaʔ³²/, /t͡ɕʰiɪk̚³²/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕʰiaʔ⁵/, /t͡ɕʰiɪk̚⁵/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕʰiaʔ³²/, /t͡ɕʰiɪk̚³²/
- IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕʰiaʔ³²/, /t͡ɕʰiɪk̚³²/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕʰiaʔ³²/, /t͡ɕʰiɪk̚³²/
- Note: chhiah - vernacular, chhek - literary.
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: tshaq (T4)
- IPA (key): /t͡sʰᴀʔ⁵⁵/
- (Shanghainese)
| Rime | |
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| Character | 赤 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 昌 (24) |
| Final (韻) | 昔 (123) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 昌石切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/t͡ɕʰiᴇk̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/t͡ɕʰiɛk̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/t͡ɕʰiæk̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/cʰiajk̚/ |
| Li Rong |
/t͡ɕʰiɛk̚/ |
| Wang Li |
/t͡ɕʰĭɛk̚/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/t͡ɕʰi̯ɛk̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
chi |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
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| Character | 赤 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 1477 |
| Phonetic component |
赤 |
| Rime group |
鐸 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
尺 |
| Old Chinese |
/*kʰljaɡ/ |
Definitions
赤
- (literary or poetic) red
- loyal
- empty
- bare; naked
- (politics) revolutionary; communist; red
- 赤色政權 / 赤色政权 ― chìsèzhèngquán ― communist regime (literally: red regime)
- pure gold
Synonyms
Compounds
Japanese
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Kanji
赤
Readings
- Goon: しゃく (shaku)
- Kan’on: せき (seki)
- Kun: あか (aka), あかい (赤い, akai), あからむ (赤らむ, akaramu), あからめる (赤らめる, akarameru)
- Nanori: あ (a), あこ (ako), あま (ama)
References
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- Source: EDICT and KANJIDIC files licensed by the Electronic Dictionaries Research Group.
Compounds
Compounds
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Pronunciation
Noun
Prefix
Derived terms
References
- ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
- ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3
Korean
Hanja
赤 • (jeok)
Eumhun:
- Sound (hangeul): 적 (revised: jeok, McCune-Reischauer: chŏk, Yale: cek)
- Name (hangeul): 븕을()
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Vietnamese
Han character
赤 (xích)
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