Keyword
deep red
- vermilion
- cinnabar
- scarlet
- red
- bloody
- Frequency
- #1788
- Strokes
- 6
- Grade
- 8
- JLPT (old)
- N1
- Heisig
- 235
Readings
シュ50%
あけ50%
Mnemonic
A festival crew props a papier-mache cow head against a tree and splashes the whole trunk deep red with paint.
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in kanji
株stocks殊especially珠pearl侏actor咮beak姝beautiful girl洙name of a Chinese river茱river ginger tree邾feudal state which existed BC 700-469, now in Shandong𡱖female genitalia硃red mole蛛spider誅death penalty銖measuring unit, 1/16 of a ryou
Used in vocabulary
朱
red; crimson; scarlet; red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange); red light (traffic); red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading); (in) the red; complete; total; perfect; …
Noun
朱
vermillion (colour); cinnabar; red orange; vermillion (pigment); cinnabar ink stick; correction written in red ink
Noun
朱雀
Vermilion Bird (god said to rule over the southern heavens); seven mansions (Chinese constellations) of the southern heavens
Noun