赤(chì)

HSK 7-97 strokes

red

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Character information

Pinyin
chì
Meaning
red; scarlet; bare; naked
Strokes
7
HSK level
HSK 7-9
Traditional
Same

Origin & structure

Where 赤 comes from and how its parts fit together.

Ideograph⿱土火

A person 土 whose cheeks are burning 火

A combination of parts whose meanings add up to the whole.

Made of

土tǔ火huǒ

Parts are arranged top to bottom.

How to write 赤 step by step

7 strokes — each frame adds one stroke, shown in dark ink over the lighter ones.

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Words with 赤

Common words using 赤 — tap any character to open its stroke-order page.

chì赤zì字
HSK 7-9

(financial) deficit

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shù术chì赤

Jöchi (c. 1182–1227) Mongol army commander, eldest of Genghis Khan's four s…

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chì赤lǎo佬

(dialect) scoundrel; rascal

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chì赤tù兔

Red Hare, famous horse of the warlord Lü Bu 吕布 in the Three Ki…

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nǔ努ěr尔hā哈chì赤

Nurhaci (1559-1626), founder and first Khan of the Manchu Later Jin dynasty 后金 (from 1616)

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jí急chì赤bái白liǎn脸

to worry oneself sick

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bái白méi眉chì赤yǎn眼

for no reason (idiom)

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chì赤chéng城

see 赤城县

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字术佬兔努尔哈急

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