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The Japanese color I’m going to teach you in this blog post is “red”. I will show you 6 common ways to say “red” in Japanese including the real meaning, kanji, hiragana, and English translations of each word.

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Let’s start with the most basic Japanese words for “red” and the “color red“.

Aka (赤, あか) is the basic Japanese word and kanji for the color “red”, while akai (赤い, あかい) is a Japanese adjective that translates as “red”.

As an alternative, the word akairo (赤色, あかいろ) and the English loanword reddo (レッド) can be used to say “red” in Japanese. Other kanjis for “red” are 紅 and 朱.

Read on, if you want to know all 6 ways to say “red” in Japanese and also learn the words for “deep red“, “bright red“, and “dark red”.

At the end of this post, I have attached a table where you can look up related words such as “red (traffic) light“, “red panda“, “red moon“, “red dragon“, and “red bean paste“.

How to Say “Red” in Japanese

• aka – 赤
• akai – 赤い
• akairo – 赤色
• reddo – レッド
• makka – 真っ赤
• ansekishoku – 暗赤色

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