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曜

曜 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. がってくこと。
  2. りく。
  3. 天体を、日時のある周期に当てはめたもの。特に七曜に関するもの。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

形声。「日」+音符「翟」。「燿」「耀」の偏を入れ替えた異体字であるが、現在は特に曜日を表す場合に多く用いる。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

weekday

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • ヨウElem.
Nanori (used in names)
  • てる
Other languages
  • 拼音yao4
  • 拼音yue4
  • 한글yo
  • Hán-ViệtDiệu

Labels show the school stage at which each Jōyō reading is taught.

Basics

Strokes
18 strokes
Radical
日(ひ)
JIS level
Level 1
JLPT (old scale)
Level 3
Unicode
U+66DC

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰日翟

Words using this kanji

  • 曜日ようび七曜で呼ぶ一週間の各日。day of the week
  • 曜霊ようれいthe sun

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(43 results)

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Lookup codes

SKIP
1-4-14
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6701.4
Spahn–Hadamitzky
4c14.1
Heisig
618
Nelson
2162