朱 — vermilion, cinnabar, scarlet

しゅ朱 vermilion

しゅ

U+6731 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1788 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #235 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

vermilion
cinnabar
scarlet
red
bloody

Readings

On'yomi: しゅ shu
Kun'yomi: あけ ake

word

しゅ shu On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

朱(しゅ) shu vermilion 御(ご) 朱(しゅ) 印(いん) goshuin shrine red seal

Words by frequency and grade

2 words

Each dot is a word containing 朱: further left is more common, higher up needs a later school grade (the grade of its hardest kanji). Click a dot to open the word.

S = secondary school · 1 word has no frequency rank; it sits in the Unranked column.

Appears in idioms

朱に交われば赤くなる諺

If you mix with vermilion, you become red

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

み未 not yet

丿 slash

Used as component in (3)

かぶ株 stocks しゅ殊 particularly じゅ珠 pearl

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#75 木 tree