🇬🇧 English from 🇰🇷 Korean All Words
red
/rɛd/
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🇰🇷 Korean: 빨간색
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Definition

🇬🇧 English
adjective

A bright colour like blood or fire. Red is at the long wavelength end of the colour spectrum.

Grammar Notes

🇬🇧 English

Adjective. Used before nouns: 'a red rose', or after verbs: 'the apple is red'. Comparative: redder. Common collocations: red wine, red light, red card (football), red tape (bureaucracy).

Cultural Notes

Red is one of the most emotionally powerful colours in English-speaking cultures. It signals danger (red light, red alert) but also love (red roses on Valentine's Day). 'Red tape' means unnecessary bureaucracy.

Example Sentences

The wall and the door are red.

"The wall and the door are red."

🇰🇷 "벽과 문은 빨간색이다."

In autumn the leaves are red.

"In autumn the leaves are red."

🇰🇷 "가을이 되면 나뭇잎이 붉게 물든다."

Practice Quiz

1. What colour is a rose often associated with love?
2. At a traffic light, red means:

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