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赤
Mandarin · pinyin chì
Meanings
- red
- scarlet
- bare
- naked
Characters in this entry
- 赤
- chì · red; bare; Kangxi radical 155
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Mandarin tones
4 · chi4
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
cek3 · cik3
Cantonese word readings for 赤. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
character · Etymology 1
- (literary or poetic) red, crimson
- (Teochew) brown
- loyal; sincere
- empty; bare
- to be naked
- (politics) revolutionary; communist; red
- pure gold
- (Hokkien) lean (of meat)
- (Hokkien) to brown (to cook something until it becomes brown)
- (Hokkien) fierce and unreasonable; tough and unable to talk sense (especially of a woman)
- (Mainland China Hokkien) poor; impoverished
character · Etymology 2
- (Cantonese) painful; aching
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