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赪 is a phono-semantic compound character denoting a light shade of red or a reddish hue, originally describing the color of certain fish or a blushing face. It pairs the semantic radical 赤 (chì, 'red'), which anchors the meaning in the color category, with the phonetic component 贞 (zhēn) that indicates the pronunciation. The traditional counterpart 赬 retains the unsimplified phonetic 貞 (zhēn) and carries exactly the same meaning, with the only difference being the simplified versus traditional form of the phonetic component.
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