Nihoner

朱かあかかん

あかかん · akakan

JLPT N5 i-adjective 連体形

is the form before a noun of 朱し — red, crimson, scarlet, vermilion.

  • Red, communist
Classical Japanese — you’ll mostly meet it in older texts and set phrases
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朱し 朱か

Form before a noun (). In modern Japanese it looks like the plain form; it sits right before a noun: 食べる人 (a person who eats).

This spelling is the version with ん (sound change before で/だ): 読ん → 読んで.

朱し is a classical japanese conjugation, so it follows that pattern.

Other forms and spellings

朱かれ朱からう朱からふ朱から朱し朱き朱かる朱ふ朱かり
form before a noun of 朱し