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Kanji Detail for 曜 - "day of the week"

曜

  • Meaning

    曜 means "day of the week." Also associated with light, celestial bodies.

    1. To shine - To radiate light; to be brilliant.

    2. Light - Sunlight; radiance.

    3. Celestial bodies - The sun, moon, and five planets; the seven luminaries.

    4. Day of the week - The seven days named after celestial bodies.

  • Words using 曜

    • 土曜 どよう Listen Saturday
    • 曜日 ようび Listen day of the week
    • 日曜 にちよう Listen Sunday
    • 金曜 きんよう Listen Friday
    • 月曜 げつよう Listen Monday
    • 水曜 すいよう Listen Wednesday
    • 木曜 もくよう Listen Thursday
    • 火曜日 かようび Listen Tuesday

  • Tattoo check: 曜

    • Verified meaning: day of the week
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read あき, あきら, かぐや, てるこ)
    • Also carries these associations: light, celestial bodies

    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 曜

    Given names 曜(あき)Listen 曜(あきら)Listen 曜(かぐや)Listen 曜(てるこ)Listen 曜(ひかり)Listen 曜(ひかる)Listen 曜(よう)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    weekday

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    glorious, as sun; daylight, sunlight; one of the seven planets of pre-modern astronomy (the sun, the moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn)

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    bright; glorious; one of the seven planets of premodern astronomy

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    bright, glorious; Venus

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

    Sunlight. Also written as 燿 or 耀. The sun, moon, and five planets are called 七曜 (seven luminaries). From "Guliang Zhuan." Japan calls the seven days of the week 七曜日. Because of ancient Babylonian custom, these seven days were dedicated to worshiping seven celestial bodies. Later transmitted to Europe, where religious followers adopted it as the weekly cycle. Japan then translated from Western languages.

  • Onyomi

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    yoh(ヨウ) ヨウ

  • Kunyomi

    tip
    none

  • Strokes

    tip

    18 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    日 (hi・hihen・nichi・nichihen)

  • Related Keywords

    light celestial bodies day of the week seven days shining radiant weekday sun moon planet brightness brilliance gleam glow calendar

Sentences including 曜

  • You don't have to work on sundays.

  • It being sunday , the shop was closed.

  • Sunday is not a workday for me.

  • Are you busy on sunday afternoon?

  • You had better leave there on monday.

  • Are they open on sunday?

  • School will open on monday.

  • It has been raining since last monday.

  • It has been raining since last sunday.

  • Her mother has been sick since last thursday.

Sentences from Japanese classical masterpieces

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