日

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Translingual

Stroke order

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Han character

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Radical 72 日

日 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 日 (A), four-corner 6010₀, composition ⿴囗一)

1. Kangxi radical #72, ⽇.
2. Shuowen Jiezi radical №231

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with 曰 (Kangxi radical #73), which is generally wider and shorter.

Derived characters

• Appendix:Chinese radical/日
• 𬽪, 𠯐, 𡉭, 𪥨, 𡥌, 𫴸, 𡯙, 𢁯, 抇, 汨, 𤝍, 阳, 𨑨, 𣏬, 𣬰, 𭴌, 𡯒, 𡯟, 𥎭, 𥘗, 衵, 𮇇, 𥿀, 𦨙, 蚎, 𧠗, 𧥵, 𧲥, 𧺝, 𧿭, 𡲉, 鈤, 䖑, 䫻(𫗇), 𩚣, 𫽰, 馹(驲), 䵒, 𪕈
• 欥, 炚, 甠, 圼, 妟, 𢗭, 杲, 炅, 𭴋, 𤘵, 𦐇, 𧦊, 𧰮, 𣃸, 𦃙, 𧏒, 𨍯, 𠘗, 𡦬, 𠕌, 𫧍, 𪜌, 間(间), 𧗧
• 㒲, 𠕾, 𠯭, 𡰶, 㞱, 𢎃, 䒤, 杳, 𣥜, 氜, 沓, 㸓, 者, 星, 𤵖, 香, 音, 亯, 𫂵, 耆, 𧖮, 景, 晃, 𡥨, 𡸱, 孴, 𢧋, 𡦏, 稥, 𦳜, 𪎗, 𮏥, 𪏰, 𡾡

Descendants

• ㄖ (Zhuyin letter)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 489, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13733
• Dae Jaweon: page 848, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1482, character 1
• Unihan data for U+65E5

Further reading

• 日 on Wikidata.Wikidata

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 日
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) – the Sun. A dot or line was added in the centre to distinguish it from visually similar characters, e.g. 囗 (early form of 丁). Compare earlier forms of the character with the astronomical and astrological symbol for the Sun (☉) and the Egyptian hieroglyph 𓇳.

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-nəj. Cognate to Tibetan ཉི་མ (nyi ma, “sun, day”), Burmese နေ (ne, “sun”) or Burmese နေ့ (ne., “day”), S'gaw Karen နံၤ (nĩ, “day”), and Nuosu ꑍ (nyip, “day, daytime”).

Pronunciation

Definitions

日

1. (astronomy) Sun
2. daytime; time between sunrise and sunset

   日班  ―  rìbān  ―  day shift

   Antonyms: 夜 (yè), 夜間／夜间 (yèjiān), 夜晚 (yèwǎn), 晚上 (wǎnshang)

3. day; twenty-four hours
4. everyday; daily; day-to-day
5. day of the month

   三月四日  ―  sān yuè sì rì  ―  March 4

   Synonym: 號／号 (hào)

6. some day; some other time
7. former times; previous times; the past
8. time; period; age
9. Classifier for days.
10. Short for 日本 (Rìběn, “Japan; Japanese; Nippo-”):

    中日詞典／中日词典  ―  zhōngrì cídiǎn  ―  Chinese-Japanese dictionary

11. ^† Alternative form of 二 (èr, “two”)
12. (obsolete) Short for 日斯巴尼亞／日斯巴尼亚 (Rìsībāníyà, “Spain”).
13. (～母) (Chinese linguistics) the Middle Chinese initial of 日 (MC nyit)

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