See also: EI, El, , , , , , 𭺫, 𭺪, , 𐌇, and 𐩳

U+65E5, 日
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-65E5

[U+65E4]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+65E6]
U+2F47, ⽇
KANGXI RADICAL SUN

[U+2F46]
Kangxi Radicals
[U+2F48]
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Translingual

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Stroke order
 
Stroke order
 

Han character

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

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

Usage notes

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

Derived characters

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Descendants

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References

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  • 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

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Chinese

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Glyph origin

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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

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alternative forms

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ku-ni(k). 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

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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/
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  • 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. *[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
Reading # 1/1
No. 10845
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*njiɡ/

Definitions

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  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. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) 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
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  • (Japan):

Compounds

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Descendants

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Sino-Xenic ():

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

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  1. (dialectal Mandarin, dialectal Jin, dialectal Wu, dialectal Xiang, vulgar, often in abuses) to fuck; to have sexual intercourse with
      ―  gǒu  ―  fucking
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Etymology 3

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simp. and trad.

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

Pronunciation

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  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

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

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Japanese

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Kanji

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(First grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

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Compounds

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Etymology 1

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Kanji in this term
にち
Grade: 1
goon

/nʲitɨ//nit͡ɕi/

From Middle Chinese (MC nyit).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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(にち) (nichi

  1. Short for 日曜日 (nichiyōbi): Sunday

Counter

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

Derived terms
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Days in Japanese
NumberKanjiKanaRomaji
1一日いちにちichinichi
(1st day of the month)一日ついたち、いっぴtsuitachi, ippi
2二日ふつかfutsuka
3三日みっかmikka
4四日よっかyokka
5五日いつかitsuka
6六日むいかmuika
7七日なのか、なぬかnanoka, nanuka
8八日ようかyōka
9九日ここのかkokonoka
10十日とおかtōka
11十一日じゅういちにちjūichinichi
12十二日じゅうににちjūninichi
13十三日じゅうさんにちjūsannichi
14十四日じゅうよっかjūyokka
15十五日じゅうごにちjūgonichi
16十六日じゅうろくにちjūrokunichi
17十七日じゅうしちにち、じゅうななにちjūshichinichi, jūnananichi
18十八日じゅうはちにちjūhachinichi
19十九日じゅうくにちjūkunichi
20二十日はつかhatsuka
21二十一日にじゅういちにちnijūichinichi
22二十二日にじゅうににちnijūninichi
23二十三日にじゅうさんにちnijūsannichi
24二十四日にじゅうよっか、にじゅうよんにちnijūyokka, nijūyonnichi
25二十五日にじゅうごにちnijūgonichi
26二十六日にじゅうろくにちnijūrokunichi
27二十七日にじゅうしちにち、にじゅうななにちnijūshichinichi, nijūnananichi
28二十八日にじゅうはちにちnijūhachinichi
29二十九日にじゅうくにちnijūkunichi
30三十日さんじゅうにち、みそかsanjūnichi, misoka
31三十一日さんじゅういちにちsanjūichinichi
100百日ひゃくにちhyakunichi
10,000一万日いちまんにちichimannichi
100,000,000一億日いちおくにちichiokunichi
00日零日ゼロにち、れいにちzeronichi, reinichi
?何日なんにちnannichi

Affix

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(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
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Etymology 2

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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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(じつ) (jitsu

  1. sun
  2. day
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Etymology 3

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Kanji in this term

Grade: 1
kun'yomi

⟨pi1 → */pʲi//ɸi//hi/

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

Alternative forms

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  • (sun, sunlight, daytime):

Pronunciation

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  • Audio:(file)

Noun

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() (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
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Etymology 4

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Kanji in this term

Grade: 1
kun'yomi

From Old Japanese.

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() (-ka

  1. daytimes
  2. number of days
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References

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

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Etymology

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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[2] 날〮 (Yale: nál) ᅀᅵᆯ〮 (Yale: zíl)

Pronunciation

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Hanja

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Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

(eumhun (nal il))

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

Compounds

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Hanja in this term

(Il) (hangeul )

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

Usage notes

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

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  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典. [3]

Okinawan

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Kanji

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(First grade kyōiku kanji)

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Old Japanese

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Compounds

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Japonic *pi.

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

Noun

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(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
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Etymology 2

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

Suffix

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(-ka) (kana )

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

Etymology 3

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

Noun

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(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.
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Han character

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: 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).

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