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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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Han character

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

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

Usage notes

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

Derived characters

Descendants

References

  • 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

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Chinese

Glyph origin

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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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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”.

  • Dialectal data

Definitions

  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-”)
  1. 詞典词典   zhōng cídiǎn   Chinese-Japanese dictionary
    咖喱   shì gālí   Japanese curry
  2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) Alternative form of (èr, two)
  3. (obsolete) Short for 日斯巴尼亞日斯巴尼亚 (Rìsībāníyà, “Spain”).
  4. () (Chinese linguistics) the Middle Chinese initial of (MC nyit)
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Compounds

Descendants

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


Definitions

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

Pronunciation


Definitions

  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

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

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