Illustration: After closing a tiny neighborhood café, the owner empties the day's takings from the cash tray into three shallow payment dishes. Each dish has a row of circular coin recesses. Coffee beans and a milk bottle identify two supply costs; a miniature model of the café identifies the premises cost.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

赤あか字じ

akaji

deficit, being in the red

Example sentences

  1. 我わが家やの家計かけいは赤字あかじだ。

    Our family budget is in the red.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 商売しょうばいは赤字あかじだ。

    The business is in the red.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 昨年さくねんは赤字あかじでした。

    We went into the red last year.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 赤字

  • 赤redOnセキ・シャクKunあか・あか-・あかい
  • 字character; letterOnジKunあざ・あざな

A word like this on every new tab

The Bebop Chrome extension shows one illustrated Japanese word each time you open a new tab in Chrome, with its reading, meaning, kanji and three example sentences. Choose any mix of levels from N5 to beyond N1. It’s free, with no account.

The Bebop new tab showing 音楽, music, over an illustration of a family playing music at home, with three example sentences
Add to Chrome Free on the Chrome Web Store
For Chrome on a computer. See it on the Chrome Web Store