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JLPT N5 · Noun

赤 (aka)

赤 (あか, aka) is a Japanese noun meaning “red; crimson”. It appears in JLPT N5 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading
あか
Romaji
aka
Word class
Noun
Level
JLPT N5 (unofficial)

Meaning

  1. red; crimson; scarlet · noun, noun taking の
  2. red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange) · noun
  3. Red (i.e. communist) · noun · colloquial · often written as アカ
  4. red light (traffic) · noun · abbreviation
  5. red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading); (in) the red · noun · abbreviation

Example sentences

信号機が赤の間は道路を渡るな。
Don't cross the road when the signal is red.
Tatoeba #145704
サダムが脅威でないなどと言うのは、赤がかった反戦運動の人達くらい。
It's only the anti-war pinkos who say things like Saddam isn't a threat.
Tatoeba #74141

Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.

Kanji in 赤

赤
redセキ・シャク・あか・あか- · 7 strokes

Related words

Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 赤.

赤いあかいred赤ん坊あかんぼうbaby赤ちゃんあかちゃんbaby真っ赤まっかbright red赤道せきどうequator赤字あかじ(being in) the red赤らむあからむto become red

Source: JMdict entry 2013900 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.