Jisho

×

4 strokes
Radical:
sun, day
Parts:
day, sun, Japan, counter for days
Kun:
-び-か
On:
ニチジツ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
1 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 日 【ニチ】 Sunday, nth day (of the month), counter for days, Japan
  • 日時 【ニチジ】 date and time (of a meeting, departure, etc.), days and hours
  • 抗日 【コウニチ】 resistance against Japanese aggression, anti-Japanese (campaign, movement, etc.)
  • 在日 【ザイニチ】 resident in Japan (of a foreigner), situated in Japan (e.g. of an embassy), Zainichi, Zainichi Korean, North or South Korean national with permanent residency in Japan (who came to the country before 1945, or a descendant of such a person)
  • 日月 【ジツゲツ】 sun and moon, time, days and months, years, Sunday and Monday
  • 日外 【ジツガイ】 at one time, some time ago, once
  • 両日 【リョウジツ】 both days, two days
  • 三十日 【ミソカ】 last day of the month

Kun reading compounds

  • 日 【ひ】 day, days, sun, sunshine, sunlight, (the) day, daytime, daylight, date, deadline, (past) days, time (e.g. of one's childhood), case (esp. unfortunate), event
  • 日陰 【ひかげ】 shade, shadow, sunshine, sunlight
  • 在りし日 【ありしひ】 past days, bygone days, days of yore, the olden days, while still alive, during one's lifetime
  • あくる日 【あくるひ】 next day, following day

Readings

Japanese names:
あ、 あき、 いる、 く、 くさ、 こう、 す、 たち、 に、 にっ、 につ、 へ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ri4
Korean:
il

Spanish

  • día
  • solar
  • Japón
  • sol
  • rayo de sol

Portuguese

  • dia
  • sol
  • Japão

French

  • jour
  • soleil
  • Japon
  • compteur de jours
11 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
13 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
62 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2097 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
5 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
56 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
77 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1.A Japanese for Busy People
5 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
5 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
16 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
963 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3759 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1915 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2606 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
12 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
13733 Morohashi
3027 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2410 New Nelson (John Haig)
12 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
12 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
33 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3878 2001 Kanji
4c0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-1 SKIP code
4-4-1 SKIP code
6010.0 Four corner code
1-38-92 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
65e5 Unicode hex code

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 暈 【カサ】 halo (around the Sun, Moon, etc.), ring, corona
  • 繧繝 【ウンゲン】 ungen, method of dyeing in which a color repeatedly goes from dense to diffuse, diffuse to dense; used in Buddhist pictures, temple ornaments, etc., during the Nara and Heian periods
  • 乳暈 【ニュウウン】 areola mammae (circular area around nipple), areola
  • 日暈 【ヒガサ】 solar halo

Kun reading compounds

  • 暈す 【ぼかす】 to blur, to shade off, to gradate, to obscure, to make ambiguous
  • 暈ける 【ぼける】 to be faded, to be hazy, to be blurred, to be out of focus
  • 暈 【かさ】 halo (around the Sun, Moon, etc.), ring, corona
  • 隈 【くま】 corner, nook, recess, shade, shadow, dark area, dark circles (under the eyes), dark rings, bend (in a road, river, etc.), shading, gradation, kumadori, style of kabuki makeup used for violent roles
  • 隈取り 【くまどり】 shading, (colour) gradation, kumadori, style of kabuki makeup used for violent roles
  • 暈し 【ぼかし】 blurring (e.g. of an image), blur, gradient, gradation, shading, bokashi composting, fermented composting
  • ぼかし染め 【ぼかしぞめ】 gradation dyeing

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yun1, yun4
Korean:
hun, un

Spanish

Portuguese

French

2151 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1997 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
14037 Morohashi
2500 New Nelson (John Haig)
2439 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2516 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4c9.7 The Kanji Dictionary
2-4-9 SKIP code
6050.6 Four corner code
1-58-84 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6688 Unicode hex code