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日

日

日 U+65E5, 日
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-65E5
← 旤
[U+65E4] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 旦 →
[U+65E6]
See also: 曰, 臼, 白, 冃, and 𐌇

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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

  1. Kangxi radical #72, ⽇ ‎(“sun”).

Descendants

See also

  • Not to be confused with 曰, which is generally wider and shorter

References

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 日
alt. forms
 
囸
𡆠
𡇁
𡆸
𡇗
𡈎

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 日
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (日) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
涅 *niːɡ
捏 *niːɡ
篞 *niːɡ
衵 *niɡ, *njiɡ
日 *njiɡ
馹 *njiɡ

Pictogram (象形) - pictographic representation of the Sun. Compare earlier forms of the character with the astronomical and astrological symbol for the Sun (☉).

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *nəj.

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 日
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/
Suzhou /zəʔ³/
/ȵiəʔ³/
Hangzhou /zəʔ²/
Wenzhou /zai²¹³/
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 (Min Nan) /lit̚⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /niʔ⁵/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /ni⁴²/
Shantou (Min Nan) /zik̚⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /zit̚⁵/
/zit̚³/
Rime
Character 日
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 日 (38)
Final (韻) 質 (48)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 人質切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ȵiɪt̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ȵit̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ȵʑjet̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ȵit̚/
Li
Rong		 /ȵiĕt̚/
Wang
Li		 /ȵʑĭĕt̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ȵʑi̯ĕt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 rì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 日
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 rì
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. *[t] 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 日
Reading # 1/1
No. 10845
Phonetic
component		 日
Rime
group		 質
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 日
Old
Chinese		 /*njiɡ/

Definitions

日

  1. (literary or dialectal) sun
  2. daytime
  3. (literary or dialectal) day
  4. everyday
  5. day of the month
  6. Classifier for days.
  7. Short for 日本 (Rìběn, “Japan; Japanese; Nippo-”):
    中日詞典 / 中日词典  ―  zhōngrì cídiǎn  ―  Chinese-Japanese dictionary
  8. (vulgar) to ****

Synonyms

Antonyms

  • 夜 (yè, “night”)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

日

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. day
  2. sun
  3. counter for days
  4. birthday
  5. Japan

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

From Old Japanese /hi1/. This is distinct from 火 ‎(hi), consistently rendered as /hi2/ in Old Japanese. See Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai for details on Old Japanese readings.

Pronunciation

Noun

日 ‎(hiragana ひ, romaji hi)

  1. sun
  2. day

Proper noun

日 ‎(hiragana にち, romaji Nichi)

  1. short form for Japan or Japanese, Nippo- (prefix)
    日露戦争 (にちろせんそう)
    Nichi-Ro sensō
    Japanese-Russian war (normally: "Russo-Japanese war")
Synonyms
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Apophonic form of /hi/. Obsolete; only used in compounds in modern Japanese.

Pronunciation

In compounds, this is often realized simply as /u/, [ɯᵝ].

Noun

日 ‎(hiragana ふ, romaji fu)

  1. (obsolete) day
Derived terms

Etymology 3

From Old Japanese.

Pronunciation

Counter

日 ‎(hiragana か, romaji -ka)

  1. number of days

Suffix

日 ‎(hiragana か, romaji -ka)

  1. day of the month

Usage notes

The use of ka for the number of days or day of the month is somewhat irregular in Japanese, and only applies to certain numbers, as listed below from 1 to 31.

Etymology 4

Apophonic form of /ka/. Obsolete; only used in certain set phrases in modern Japanese.

Pronunciation

Noun

日 ‎(hiragana け, romaji ke)

  1. (obsolete) days
    Only used in plural contexts. Never used to indicate a single day.
Derived terms

Etymology 5

Suffix

日 ‎(hiragana にち, romaji -nichi)

  1. -th
    ２７日 (にじゅうしちにち)
    nijūshichi-nichi
    the 27th

Korean

Hanja

日 • ‎(il)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 일 (revised: il, McCune-Reischauer: il, Yale: il)
  • Name (hangeul): 날 (revised: nal, McCune-Reischauer: nal, Yale: nal)
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Noun

  1. (as an abbreviation) Sunday

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

日 (nhật, nhất, nhắt, nhứt)

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Compounds

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