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日 kanji
day, sun, Japan, counter for days
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 4
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
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ニチジツ
Kun readings
ひ-び-か
Words with 日
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —日常会話everyday conversation; day-to-day conversation
- —日常茶飯everyday occurrence
- —日進月歩steady progress; rapid advance
- —日中韓越Japan, China, South Korea and Vietnam; Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese (languages); CJKV
- —日帝時代period of Japanese colonial rule (of Korea; 1910-1945)
- —日内周期diurnal cycle
- —日米貿易trade between Japan and USA
- —日曜大工weekend carpentry; do-it-yourself; DIY; weekend carpenter; do-it-yourselfer
- —黄道吉日very auspicious day for all types of occasions
- —延べ日数total days
- —日清戦争First Sino-Japanese war (1894-1895)
- —日露戦争Russo-Japanese War (1904-5)
- —縁日商人festival vendor
- —病床日誌day-by-day record of a patient's condition; diary written while ill in bed
- —日一日とday by day
- —日記文学literature written in diary form
- —日照時間daylight hours; hours of sunshine
- —四十九日forty-ninth day after a person's death
- —祥月命日anniversary of a person's death
- —獄中日記prison diary