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Kanji Detail for 日 - "sun, japan, daytime"

日

  • Meaning

    日 means "sun, japan, daytime."

    1. Sun - The sun; sunlight.

    2. Daytime - The hours when the sun is up.

    3. One day - A full day; 24 hours.

    4. Daily - Every day; day by day.

    5. A certain day - A particular time or occasion.

    6. Japan - An abbreviation for "Japan."

    7. Day counter - A word for counting days.

    8. Sunday - One of the seven days of the week.

  • Words using 日

    • 同日 どうじつ Listen the same day
    • 日米 にちべい Listen Japan and the United States; Japanese-American
    • 毎日 まいにち Listen every day; daily
    • 日本人 にほんじん Listen Japanese person
    • 今日 きょう Listen today; this day; these days
    • 全日 ぜんじつ Listen all days
    • 前日 ぜんじつ Listen previous day; day before; eve
    • 日程 にってい Listen schedule; program; programme

  • Four-character idioms with 日

    • 日進月歩 にっしんげっぽ Listen steady progress; rapid advance
    • 一日三秋 いちじつさんしゅう Listen (waiting) impatiently; (spending) many a weary day; each moment seeming like an eternity
    • 一日千秋 いちじつせんしゅう Listen (waiting) impatiently; (spending) many a weary day; each moment seeming like an eternity
    • 一日片時 いちにちへんじ Listen short time
    • 三日坊主 みっかぼうず Listen person who cannot stick to anything; unsteady worker
    • 三日天下 みっかてんか Listen short-lived rule; being in power only for a brief period; brief championship

  • Origin of 日

    A pictograph of the sun: a circle with a dot at its centre, squared over centuries by the brush.

    How to remember it: The sun's disc with its central spot — a circle the brush squared into a box.

    Sources: en.wiktionary.org · mojinavi.com

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    • Verified meaning: sun, japan, daytime
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read あきら, くさなぎ, くさやなぎ, じつ)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 日

    Given names 日(あきら)Listen 日(じつ)Listen 日(にっしゅう)Listen 日(ひかる)Listen

    Surnames 日(くさなぎ)Listen 日(くさやなぎ)Listen 日(たかにち)Listen 日(たちもり)Listen 日(にちれん)Listen 日(ひさき)Listen 日(ひざき)Listen 日(ひたか)Listen

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  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    day; sun; Japan; counter for days

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    sun; day; daytime

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    abbr. for 日本[Ri4 ben3], Japan

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    sun; day; daytime

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    One of the fixed stars. Extremely bright and hot. It rotates and has gravitational pull. The Earth and other planets revolve around it to form seasons and years. | One day and night is called 日, meaning one full rotation of the Earth. Such as "a year has three hundred sixty-five days." | Daytime, as opposed to night. Such as 夜以繼日 (to continue day and night). Also refers to time in general. Such as 往日 (past days), 來日 (future days), 異日 (another day). | Country name. Abbreviation for Japan. Located east of China. Also called the Eastern Sea (Dongyang).

  • Onyomi

    tip

    jitsu(ジツ) ジツ

    nichi(ニチ) ニチ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    bi(び) び

    hi(ひ) ひ

    ka(か) か

  • Strokes

    tip

    4 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    日 (hi・hihen・nichi・nichihen)

  • Related Keywords

    sun daytime japan sunday one day daily everyday counting days anniversary bright calendar date golden hours luminosity radiant shine solar

Sentences including 日

  • I don't want to see anybody today.

  • You don't have to work on sundays.

  • I didn't study at all yesterday.

  • I had hoped to have finished this yesterday.

  • Does anyone here speak japanese?

  • It being sunday , the shop was closed.

  • I'm going to call at his house tomorrow.

  • The report was sent within the same day.

  • I lost the camera i had bought the day before.

  • It was mary that bought this skirt yesterday.

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