赤

Sovietize; Sovietise; turning red; become communistic

great shame (endured in the public eye); deep embarrassment; profound humiliation; utter disgrace

aka-e; late 19th century woodblock prints, using imported aniline dyes

red painting on ceramics

Food, cooking

red paper restaurant lantern

cheap eating and drinking place

the reds; reddish colors

blood clam (Scapharca broughtonii); ark shell

akabeko; toy from Fukushima prefecture in the shape of a red cow, also used as a talisman against smallpox

red gate (esp. at Tokyo University)

red tide

Food, cooking

dark-brown miso paste

red tag (esp. one attached to sold goods or discounted products); red label

Card games

swords (playing card suit in traditional Japanese gambling decks)

Food, cooking

soup made with red miso paste; red miso soup

Chinese scarlet eggplant (Solanum integrifolium); tomato-fruit eggplant

tomato (Solanum lycopersicum)

red birthmark (esp. a hemangioma)

Colloquial

public telephone (orig. red); payphone

dhole (Cuon alpinus)

red wolf (Canis rufus)

non-legal public road (denoted by a red line on cadastral maps; sometimes no longer physically existing)

yellow with a tinge of red; orange yellow

burning sun

rubefaction (reddening of the skin)

rice that has browned (due to age)

variety of low-quality foreign rice

red rice (ancient variety of rice); red-kerneled rice

grazed skin; abraded skin

Nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'

bare surface of a mountain

nakedness; nudity

red leather; red-dyed leather

red turnip

small red radish