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U+65E5, 日
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-65E5

CJK Unified Ideographs
U+2F47, ⽇
KANGXI RADICAL SUN

Kangxi Radicals
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Translingual

Stroke order
4 strokes
Stroke order

Han character

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

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

Usage notes

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

Derived characters

Descendants

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

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
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. (early form of ). Compare earlier forms of the character with the astronomical and astrological symbol for the Sun () and the Egyptian hieroglyph 𓇳.

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.
alternative forms

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 (, day), and Nuosu (nyip, day, daytime).

Pronunciation


Note:
  • ngit5 - literary;
  • ngit1 - “day”;
  • ngit4* - “daytime”.
Note: mì - only used in 日頭 / 日头.
Note:
  • dih7/lih7/li2 - vernacular;
  • zih7 - literary.
Note: ji̍t - pronounced in some parts of Anxi, Nan'an and Yongchun counties as well.
Note:
  • rig8 - Chaozhou, Shantou, Chaoyang, Chenghai, Raoping;
  • rêg8 - Jieyang.
    • (Leizhou)
      • Leizhou Pinyin: yieg8 / yig4
      • Sinological IPA: /ziek̚²/, /zik̚⁵/
Note:
  • yieg8 - vernacular;
  • yig4 - literary.
Note:
  • 8gniq - vernacular;
  • 8zeq/8zyuq/8zhiq/8zoq - literary.
Note:
  • nyi6 - vernacular;
  • r6 - literary.
Note:
  • ni4 - vernacular;
  • i4 - literary.

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /ʐʐ̩⁵¹/
Harbin /ʐʐ̩⁵³/
Tianjin /ʐʐ̩⁵³/
Jinan /ʐʐ̩²¹/
Qingdao /i⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ʐʐ̩²⁴/
Xi'an /əʐ̩²¹/
Xining /ʐʐ̩⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ʐʐ̩¹³/
Lanzhou /ʐʐ̩¹³/
Ürümqi /ʐʐ̩²¹³/
Wuhan /ɯ²¹³/
Chengdu /zz̩³¹/
Guiyang /zz̩²¹/
Kunming /ʐʐ̩³¹/
Nanjing /ʐʐ̩ʔ⁵/
Hefei /ʐəʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /zəʔ²/
Pingyao /ʐʌʔ⁵³/
Hohhot /ʐʐ̩⁵⁵/ ~子
/ʐəʔ⁴³/ ~弄
Wu Shanghai /zəʔ¹/
/ȵiɪʔ¹/
Suzhou /zəʔ³/
/ȵiəʔ³/
Hangzhou /zəʔ²/
Wenzhou /zai²¹³/ ~本
/ne²¹³/
Hui Shexian /ni²²/
Tunxi /ȵie¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /ʐʐ̩²⁴/
/ȵi²⁴/
Xiangtan /i²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /ȵiʔ⁵/
/lɨʔ⁵/ ~曆
Hakka Meixian /ŋit̚¹/
Taoyuan /ŋit̚²²/
Cantonese Guangzhou /jɐt̚²/
Nanning /jɐt̚²²/
Hong Kong /jɐt̚²/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /lit̚⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /niʔ⁵/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /ni⁴²/
Shantou (Teochew) /zik̚⁵/
Haikou (Hainanese) /zit̚⁵/
/zit̚³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (38)
Final () (48)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter nyit
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ȵiɪt̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/ȵit̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȵʑjet̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ȵit̚/
Li
Rong
/ȵiĕt̚/
Wang
Li
/ȵʑĭĕt̚/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ȵʑi̯ĕt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
jat6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ nyit ›
Old
Chinese
/*C.nik/
English sun; day

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 10845
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*njiɡ/

Definitions

  1. (astronomy) Sun
  2. daytime; time between sunrise and sunset
      ―  bān  ―  day shift
    Antonyms: (), 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  ―  sān yuè sì   ―  March 4
    Synonym:  / (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-”):
    詞典词典  ―  zhōng cídiǎn  ―  Chinese-Japanese dictionary
    咖喱  ―  shì gālí  ―  Japanese curry
  11. Alternative form of (èr, two)
  12. (obsolete) Short for 日斯巴尼亞日斯巴尼亚 (Rìsībāníyà, “Spain”).
  13. () (Chinese linguistics) the Middle Chinese initial of (MC nyit)
Synonyms

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic ():

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.
alternative forms

Essentially a substitute character for (MC nyip, “to enter”) that preserves the expected modern pronunciation of ; see the etymology there for more.

Pronunciation


Definitions

  1. (dialectal Mandarin, dialectal Jin, dialectal Wu, dialectal Xiang, vulgar, often in abuses) to fuck; to have sexual intercourse with
      ―  gǒu  ―  fucking
Synonyms

Etymology 3

simp. and trad.

Possibly due to assimilation of (kˠiɪm) and (ȵiɪt̚). Note that ends with /m/ in Old and Middle Chinese.

Pronunciation


Definitions

  1. Only used in  / , a Han dynasty-era personal name borne by Jin Midi (金日磾) and Ma Midi (馬日磾).

Etymology 4

For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“season; time; etc.”).
(This character is an ancient form of ).

References

Japanese

Kanji

(First grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
にち
Grade: 1
goon

/nʲitɨ//nit͡ɕi/

From Middle Chinese (MC nyit).

Pronunciation

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Noun

(にち) (nichi

  1. Short for 日曜日 (nichiyōbi): Sunday

Counter

(にち) (-nichi

  1. ordinal day of a month
    27(にじゅうしち)(にち)nijūshichi-nichithe 27th
  2. number of days
    (たん)(じょう)()まであと12(じゅうに)(にち)tanjōbi made ato jūni-nichi daMy birthday is in 12 days.
Usage notes

Sometimes shortened to んち (-nchi) or (-chi).

Derived terms
See also
Japanese number-counter combinations for
1(st) 2(nd) 3(rd) 4(th) 5(th) 6(th) 7(th) 8(th) 9(th) 10(th)
How many? (いち)(にち) (ichinichi) (ふつ)() (futsuka) (みっ)() (mikka) (よっ)() (yokka) (いつ)() (itsuka) (むい)() (muika) (なの)() (nanoka)
(なぬ)() (nanuka)
(よう)() (yōka) (ここの)() (kokonoka) (とお)() (tōka)
What day? 一日(ついたち) (tsuitachi)
(いっ)() (ippi)
11(th) 12(th) 13(th) 14(th) 15(th) 16(th) 17(th) 18(th) 19(th) 20(th)
(じゅう)(いち)(にち) (jūichinichi) (じゅう)()(にち) (jūninichi) (じゅう)(さん)(にち) (jūsannichi) (じゅう)(よっ)() (jūyokka) (じゅう)()(にち) (jūgonichi) (じゅう)(ろく)(にち) (jūrokunichi) (じゅう)(しち)(にち) (jūshichinichi) (じゅう)(はち)(にち) (jūhachinichi) (じゅう)()(にち) (jūkunichi) 二十(はつ)() (hatsuka)
24(th) 27(th) 29(th) 30(th) 40(th) 50(th) 100(th) 1,000(th) 10,000(th) ?
()(じゅう)(よっ)() (nijūyokka) ()(じゅう)(しち)(にち) (nijūshichinichi) ()(じゅう)()(にち) (nijūkunichi) (さん)(じゅう)(にち) (sanjūnichi)
()()() (misoka)
()(じゅう)(にち) (shijūnichi)
()()() (yosoka)
()(じゅう)(にち) (gojūnichi)
五十()() (ika)
(ひゃく)(にち) (hyakunichi)
(もも)() (momoka)
(せん)(にち) (sennichi) (いち)(まん)(にち) (ichimannichi) (なん)(にち) (nannichi)

Affix

(にち) (nichi

  1. sun
  2. daytime, daylight
  3. day
  4. Short for 日本 (Nihon, Nippon): Japan, Japanese, Nippo-
  5. Short for 日向国 (Hyūga-no-kuni): Hyūga Province
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
じつ
Grade: 1
kan'on

/d͡ʑitʉ//d͡ʑit͡su//ʑit͡su/

From Middle Chinese (MC nyit). Compare modern Min Nan (ji̍t).

Pronunciation

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Affix

(じつ) (jitsu

  1. sun
  2. day
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term

Grade: 1
kun'yomi

⟨pi1 → */pʲi//ɸi//hi/

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *pi (day).

Alternative forms

  • (sun, sunlight, daytime):

Pronunciation

  • Audio:(file)

Noun

() (hi

  1. the sun
    Synonyms: 太陽 (taiyō), 日輪 (nichirin), 金烏 (kin'u)
  2. sunlight, sunshine
    Synonym: 日光 (nikkō)
  3. daytime, daylight
    Synonym: 昼間 (hiruma)
  4. a day
  5. time and date
  6. a daily (something done every day)
    Synonyms: 日々 (hibi), 毎日 (mainichi)
  7. the weather
    Synonym: 天気 (tenki)
  8. a (usually unfortunate) case, event, situation
  9. the times (age, era, or time in the past)
    Synonyms: (koro), 時代 (jidai)
  10. an auspicious or inauspicious aspect of a given day
    Synonym: 日柄 (higara)
  11. a 家紋 (kamon, family crest) with a sun-shaped design
Derived terms

Etymology 4

Kanji in this term

Grade: 1
kun'yomi

From Old Japanese.

Counter

() (-ka

  1. daytimes
  2. number of days
Derived terms

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese (MC nyit).

Historical Readings
Dongguk Jeongun Reading
Dongguk Jeongun, 1448 ᅀᅵᇙ〮 (Yale: zílq)
Middle Korean
Text Eumhun
Gloss (hun) Reading
Hunmong Jahoe, 1527 날〮 (Yale: nál) ᅀᅵᆯ〮 (Yale: zíl)

Pronunciation

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

(eumhun (nal il))

  1. hanja form? of (day)
  2. hanja form? of (sun; daytime)
  3. hanja form? of (Short for 일요일(日曜日) (iryoil, Sunday).)

Compounds

Proper noun

Hanja in this term

(Il) (hangeul )

  1. (in news headlines) Short for ()() (Ilbon, Japan).

Usage notes

In news headlines, this is almost always written solely in the Hanja form, even in contemporary Korean text otherwise devoid of any Hanja.

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典.

Okinawan

Kanji

(First grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Old Japanese

Compounds

Etymology 1

From Proto-Japonic *pi.

Distinct from (pi2, fire). See Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai for details on Old Japanese readings.

Noun

(pi1) (kana )

  1. the sun
  2. sunlight, sunshine
  3. daytime, daylight
  4. a day
  5. a reference to the imperial family or lineage, thought to be descended from the sun goddess Amaterasu
Derived terms
Descendants
See also

Etymology 2

Due to the irregularities in the derived terms, it has been speculated that the suffix was actually -uka. (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Suffix

(-ka) (kana )

  1. daytimes
  2. number of days
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Japanese: (-ka)

Etymology 3

Apophonic form of ka above, possibly by the fusion of ancient nominal particle (i).

Noun

(ke2) (kana )

  1. (plural only) days
    • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 4, poem 484:
      一日社人母待吉長乎如此耳待者有不得勝
      pi1to1pi1 ko2so2 pi1to2 mo mati yo2ki1 nagaki1 ke2 wo kaku nomi2 mateba arikatu
      One day, people still waiting are good; if the long days' wait just this way, then they should not exist.
Derived terms

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Việt readings: nhật ((nhân)(chất)(thiết))[1][2][3], nhựt[3]
: Nôm readings: nhặt[1][2][3][4][5], nhật[1][2][5], nhạt[2][3], nhựt[2][5], nhờn[1]

  1. chữ Hán form of nhật (sun; day).

Compounds

References