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Meanings
Noun
1. deep red; crimson
Pitch accent
Used in vocabulary (35 in total)
early morning crowing of a rooster; brown domestic fowl (chicken breed)
black tea
autumn colours; fall colors; leaves turning red; red leaves; leaves turning yellow; yellow leaves
red (color, colour)
ruby; Jonathan apple
red and white; colours for festive or auspicious occasions (colors); two teams; two groups; Kōhaku Uta Gassen; annual contest between male and female popular singers on New Year's Eve (sponsored and broadcast by NHK)
the lone woman (e.g. bright flower) in a group
red flame; (solar) prominence
red hair; Westerner (esp., originally, the Dutch)
rosy cheeks
cloud of dust; mundane world
tampala; Joseph's coat; Amaranthus tricolor
family or brothel with a beautiful woman; vermillion-lacquered mansion
red spots; erythema
red light
Red Army; Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army
(Chinese) Red Guards
globe amaranth
Red Turban Rebellion (China; 1351-1366 CE)
red algae; Rhodophyta
carmine; crimson
mangrove forest
laterite
Medal with Red Ribbon
visual purple; rhodopsin
redology; study of the novel Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin, one of China's four great classical novels
ruby silver ore
crocoisite; crocoite; red lead ore
piedmontite; piemontite; manganese epidote
fox-and-cubs (Pilosella aurantiaca); orange hawkweed; tawny hawkweed; devil's paintbrush
Philippine ground orchid (Spathoglottis plicata); Philippine orchid; large purple orchid
Examples (1 in total)
The red flowers will bloom in January.