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Kanji Detail for 曜 - "shine, celestial, bright"
曜
- Meaning
曜 means "shine, celestial, bright."
To shine - To radiate light; to be brilliant.
Light - Sunlight; radiance.
Celestial bodies - The sun, moon, and five planets; the seven luminaries.
Day of the week - The seven days named after celestial bodies.
- 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
- Kunyomi
- Strokes
- Radical
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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
from "Kokoro", by Natsume Sōseki, original text:Shueisha Bunko, Shueisha
その翌日は日曜でしたから、私は終日｜室の中に閉じ籠っていました。
from "Kokoro", by Natsume Sōseki, original text:Shueisha Bunko, Shueisha
月曜になって、学校へ出ると、私は朝っぱらそうそう級友の一人から調戯われました。
from "Kokoro", by Natsume Sōseki, original text:Shueisha Bunko, Shueisha
私が進もうか止そうかと考えて、ともかくも翌日まで待とうと決心したのは土曜の晩でした。
from "Kokoro", by Natsume Sōseki, original text:Shueisha Bunko, Shueisha
from "Kokoro", by Natsume Sōseki, original text:Shueisha Bunko, Shueisha
その翌日は日曜でしたから、私は終日｜室の中に閉じ籠っていました。
from "Kokoro", by Natsume Sōseki, original text:Shueisha Bunko, Shueisha
月曜になって、学校へ出ると、私は朝っぱらそうそう級友の一人から調戯われました。
from "Kokoro", by Natsume Sōseki, original text:Shueisha Bunko, Shueisha
私が進もうか止そうかと考えて、ともかくも翌日まで待とうと決心したのは土曜の晩でした。
from "Kokoro", by Natsume Sōseki, original text:Shueisha Bunko, Shueisha
from "Kokoro", by Natsume Sōseki, original text:Shueisha Bunko, Shueisha