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HSK
red (color) / revolutionary
HSK 2
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  *红* | 红* | *红
red / popular / revolutionary / bonus
HSK 2
red wine
HSK 3
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  *帅* | 帅* | *帅
(bound form) commander-in-chief / (bound form) to lead; to command / handsome; graceful; dashing; elegant / (coll.) cool!; sweet! / (Chinese chess) general (on the red side, equivalent to a king in Western chess)
HSK 4
money wrapped in red as a gift / bonus payment / kickback / bribe
HSK 4
very red / red through and through / to blush (deep red)
HSK 6
(financial) deficit / red letter
HSK 7-9
red light
HSK 7-9
to become infuriated / to see red / envious / jealous / covetous / pink eye (conjunctivitis) / red-eye (flight)(photography) red eye
HSK 7-9
red / rosy / flushed
HSK 7-9
red-crowned crane (Grus japonensis)
HSK 7-9
Alai (1959-), ethnic Tibetan Chinese writer, awarded Mao Dun Literature Prize in 2000 for his novel 塵埃落定|尘埃落定 "Red Poppies"
red alder (Alnus rubra)
Long March (retreat of the Red Army 1934-1935)
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  *绛* | 绛* | *绛
purple-red
red meat
Little Red Cliff, nickname of Bitan 碧潭, Xindian, Taibei county, Taiwan
red flag / CL:
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  *丹* | 丹* | *丹
red / pellet / powder / cinnabar
Red Bull (energy drink)
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  *殷* | 殷* | *殷
dark red
red line
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  *彤* | 彤* | *彤
red
azuki bean; red bean
A Dream of Red Mansions (first completed edition 1791) by Cao Xueqin 曹雪芹, one of the four great novels
red star / five pointed star as symbol or communism or proletariat / hot film star
checkpoint (for taxation, security etc) / barrier / hurdle / red tape / CL: 個|个,
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  *缇* | 缇* | *缇
orange-red silk / orange-red colored
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  *檀* | 檀* | *檀
sandalwood / hardwood / purple-red
porgy (Pagrosomus major) / red sea bream
red root gromwell (Lithospermum erythrorhizon) / flowering plant whose roots provide purple dye / arnebia (plant genus in family Boraginaceae)
color (of one's skin, a sign of good health) / red of cheeks
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  *赤* | 赤* | *赤
red / scarlet / bare / naked
(botany) red sage (Salvia miltiorrhiza)
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  *奭* | 奭* | *奭
(literary) majestic; magnificent / (literary) rich, deep red / (literary) angry; furious
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  *茜* | 茜* | *茜
(bound form) Indian madder; munjeet (Rubia cordifolia) / (bound form) madder red; dark red; alizarin crimson
heart ♥ (in card games) / red, heart-shaped symbol / bullseye
Mt Danxia in Shaoguan 韶關|韶关, Guangdong / Danxia landform (red conglomerate and sandstone)
garnet (red gemstone Mg3Al2Si3O12)
red panda (Ailurus fulgens) / red fox (Vulpes vulpes)
red soil / laterite
Red Square (in Moscow)
bloodstone / red-fleck chalcedony / heliotrope (mineralogy)
red swamp crayfish (Procambarus clarkii); Louisiana crawfish
flowers on red silk (a traditional gift to celebrate weddings etc) / a bonus / crab apple (Malus asiatica)
the national emblem of the PRC (a red circle containing the five stars of the PRC flag over Tiananmen 天安門|天安门)
(bird species of China) red-collared woodpecker (Picus rabieri)
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  *缙* | 缙* | *缙
red silk
Red River, principal river of northern Vietnam, originating in Yunnan (southwestern China)
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  *绯* | 绯* | *绯
dark red / purple silk
red autumnal leaves
red phoenix
jujube / red date
to blush / to turn red
bright red
red card (sports)
five (main) colors (white, black, red, yellow, and blue) / multicolored
realgar / red orpiment
Chinese roseheart radish (shinrimei radish), green on the outside, purple-red on the inside, a favorite Beijing vegetable
inflamed / red and swollen
dark red
bright red
red bayberry (Myrica rubra), aka Chinese bayberry
Red Sea
to trace over red characters (as a method of learning to write) / paper printed with red characters to trace over
Katyusha (name) / name of a Russian wartime song / nickname of a rocket launcher used by the Red Army in WWII
(in classical literature) young military officer of high rank for his age / (during the Cultural Revolution) young militant in the Red Guard / (in modern usage) rising star (in sport, politics etc)
hemolysis (breakdown of red blood cells leading to anemia)
red carpet
lanterns red, wine green (idiom); feasting and pleasure-seeking / debauched and corrupt environment
ostentation / a show of extravagance / grand style / red tape
The East is Red, north Shaanxi folk song
Mira (red giant star, Omicron Ceti)
red phosphorus
red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) / CL:
lit. the red apricot tree leans over the garden wall (idiom) / fig. a wife having an illicit lover
Chibi, county-level city in Xianning 咸寧市|咸宁市, Hubei / Chibi or Red Cliff in Huangzhou district 黃州區|黄州区 of Huanggang city 黃岡|黄冈, Hubei, scene of the famous battle of Red Cliff of 208
scarlet / bright red
(idiom) to fly into a rage; to see red
red sandalwood
red-hot / glowing / blazing / (fig.) passionate
brilliant red
Red Hare, famous horse of the warlord Lü Bu 呂布|吕布 in the Three Kingdoms era
"Redology", academic field devoted to the study of A Dream of Red Mansions
(bird species of China) red-headed bullfinch (Pyrrhula erythrocephala)
lit. beautiful purples and brilliant reds (idiom) / fig. beautiful flowers
to blush / flush / red tide (algal bloom) / menstruation
Masson pine (Pinus massoniana, Chinese red pine, horsetail pine)
warm color (arch.) / esp. yellow, orange or red
frightening words to scare people (idiom); alarmist talk / reds under the beds
Yangshao culture (archaeological period with red and black pottery)
in debt / in the red / in deficit
those who handle cinnabar are stained red; those who work with ink are stained black (idiom) / you are the product of your environment
red lotus
red deer / fool / idiot (from Japanese "baka")
red ink paste used for seal
Chinese red pine
cowshed / makeshift detention center set up by Red Guards in the Cultural Revolution / (baseball) bullpen
not all gold is sufficiently red (idiom); no-one is perfect
Red Guards

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