赤字 – Vocabulary details

赤あか字じ

Meanings

Noun

1. (being in) the red; deficit

赤あか字じさえ出でなければいいよ。It's fine as long as we don't run a deficit.

2. red letter; red writing

こんな大だい事じな事こと、赤あか字じとかで書かくべきだと思おもうんだけど？Something this important should be written in red or something, don't you think?

3. corrections (by a teacher or proofreader) written in red

Kanji used

赤

red

字

a character

Pitch accent

あ

かじ

Used in: 807

Composed of

赤あか

red; crimson; red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange); Red (i.e. communist); red light (traffic); red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading); (in) the red

字じ

character (esp. kanji); letter; handwriting; penmanship; the ... word (e.g. "the L word" = "love")

Used in vocabulary (16 in total)

大おお赤あか字じ

being greatly in the red; taking a big loss; heavy deficit

赤あか字じ覚かく悟ご

making a loss; incurring a deficit

赤あか字じ経けい営えい

deficit operation; operating at a loss; being in the red

13 more...

Examples (16 in total)

商しょう売ばいは赤あか字じだ。

The business is in the red.

赤あか字じさえ出でなければいいよ。

It's fine as long as we don't run a deficit.

このままだと赤あか字じコースだ。

At this rate, we're headed for a loss.