あかい
red
A big figure stood over the fire, close enough to take its colour off it. Her coat coming up the street: a car あかい, I said, and I was wrong by a mile: あかい.
赤ちゃん あかちゃん is a baby, red from the off. 赤 on its own is the colour.
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