Kanji1 / 18
曜 kanji
weekday
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 18
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
ヨウ
Kun readings
NoneWords with 曜
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —九曜Navagraha (divine personifications of the nine celestial bodies in Hindu mythology); nine luminaries; (in Onmyōdō) divination of a person's fate based on the nine celestial bodies's positions at birth
- —何曜日what day?; what day of the week?
- —黒曜岩obsidian
- —黒曜石obsidian
- —日曜版Sunday edition of a newspaper
- —七曜表calendar
- —宿曜経Xiuyaojing (Indian astrological text written by Amoghavajra)
- —同曜日same day (of the week)
- —七曜星the Big Dipper (asterism); the Plough; the Plow; the seven luminaries (sun, moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn)
- —全曜日every day of the week; all days
- —九曜星(in Onmyōdō) divination of a person's fate based on the nine celestial bodies's positions at birth; nine luminaries
- —日曜大工weekend carpentry; do-it-yourself; DIY; weekend carpenter; do-it-yourselfer
- —日曜学校Sunday school
- —聖金曜日Good Friday
- —聖土曜日Holy Saturday
- —聖木曜日Maundy Thursday; Holy Thursday
- —土曜保育Saturday childcare (e.g. at a nursery school)
- —灰の水曜日Ash Wednesday
- —血の日曜日Bloody Sunday (esp. the January 22, 1905 Saint Petersburg incident)
- —脂の木曜日Fat Thursday