赤
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red; scarlet; bare; naked
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 赤 itself
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 赤
- Common rank
- #827
- Unicode
- U+8D64
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 赤
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 赤子之心 | pure and innocent like the heart of a newborn; sincere | |
| 海外赤子 | patriotic overseas compatriot | |
| 天行赤眼 | acute contagious conjunctivitis (TCM) | |
| 天球赤道 | celestial equator | |
| 赤水市 | Chishui, a county-level city in Zunyi City 遵義市|遵义市[Zun1 yi4 Shi4], Guizhou | |
| 反赤道流 | equatorial counter current | |
| 金无足赤 | not all gold is sufficiently red (idiom); no-one is perfect | |
| 赤城县 | Chicheng, a county in Zhangjiakou City 張家口市|张家口市[Zhang1 jia1 kou3 Shi4], Hebei | |
| 赤水河 | Chishui River, tributary of Wei in Shaanxi | |
| 赤口日 | third day of the lunar year (inauspicious for visits because arguments happen easily on th… | |
| 面红耳赤 | flushed with anger (or excitement) | |
| 黄赤色 | golden colored; yellow red | |
| 赤道雨林 | equatorial rain forest | |
| 赤道几内亚 | Equatorial Guinea | |
| 打赤脚 | to bare the feet | |
| 白眉赤眼 | for no reason (idiom) | |
| 赤身露体 | completely naked | |
| 达鲁花赤 | Mongolian daruqachi, local commander in Mongol and Yuan times | |
| 赤子 | newborn baby; the people (of a country) | |
| 赤水 | see 赤水市[Chi4 shui3 Shi4] |
Sound family
These characters use 赤 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 赤 sound part | red, scarlet; blushing; bare, naked | |
| 赦 | to forgive, to pardon, to remit | |
| 哧 | the sound of ripping or giggling | |
| 郝 | a place in Shanxi province; surname |