赤 · red

JLPT N5 kanji. Readings, meaning, and how the character is built.

赤 means red. It is a JLPT N5 kanji written in 7 strokes, read あか or せき. It contains 土 (soil, earth), and at least one further part our source data does not name. It appears in 赤い (red) and 赤ん坊 (baby).

筆順 · Stroke order

赤 is written in 7 strokes, in the order numbered below. Order matters: it is what makes handwriting legible, and it is how the character is looked up in a paper dictionary.

解字 · What it is made of

赤 breaks into 1 part.

• 土 other soil, earth · top component

Words that use 赤

Word	Reading	Meaning
赤	あか	red
赤い	あかい	red
赤ん坊	あかんぼう	baby

Built from the same parts

These use 土 too. The part keeps its job from one character to the next, which is what makes it worth learning once.

• 去to leave
• 場place
• 地ground
• 堂public chamber
• 社company
• 走run
• 埼cape

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