日
(bound form) sun; day; day of the month; (bound form) Japan (abbr. for 日本[Ri4 ben3]); (vulgar) to fuck; to have sex with
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Dict coverage rank #78 U+65E5
How 日 is formed
Pictograph (象形字)
The sun
How to remember it
day · Heisig RSH #12
— as a component also called: sun, day, tongue wagging in the mouth
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 日 as their sound component
These characters all use 日 (rì) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 日 sound component | rì | sun; day; daytime |
| 耆 | qí | man of sixty; aged, old |
| 汨 | mì | to sink; a river in Hunan where Qu Yuan drowned himself |
| 蹋 | tà | to step on, to tread on |
| 遢 | tā | careless, negligent, slipshod |
Words containing 日
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 小日子 | xiǎo rì zi | simple life; (Internet slang) euphemistic substitute for 日本[Ri4 ben3] or 日本人[Ri4 ben3 ren2… |
| 不日 | bù rì | within the next few days; in a few days time |
| 日子 | rì zi | day; a (calendar) date; days of one's life |
| 日人 | Rì rén | Japanese person; the Japanese |
| 日电电子 | Rì diàn diàn zǐ | NEC (Nippon Electronic Company) |
| 日头 | rì tóu | sun (dialect); daytime; date |
| 中日 | Zhōng Rì | China-Japan |
| 日中 | Rì Zhōng | Japan-China |
| 日中 | rì zhōng | noon; midday; zenith |
| 生日 | shēng rì | birthday; CL:個|个[ge4] |
| 主日学 | zhǔ rì xué | Sunday School |
| 海日 | hǎi rì | (literary) the sun over the sea |
| 白日 | bái rì | daytime; sun; time |
| 化日 | huà rì | sunlight; daytime |
| 日化 | rì huà | household chemicals (cleaning products etc) and toiletries (abbr. for 日用化學製品|日用化学制品[ri4 yo… |
| 光天化日 | guāng tiān huà rì | the full light of day (idiom); fig. peace and prosperity; in broad daylight |
| 一日不如一日 | yī rì bù rú yī rì | to be getting worse by the day |
| 克日 | kè rì | to set a date; to set a time frame; within a certain time limit |
| 日电 | Rì diàn | NEC (Nippon Electronic Company); abbr. for 日電電子|日电电子 |
| 小日本儿 | xiǎo Rì běn r | erhua variant of 小日本[xiao3 Ri4 ben3] |