日
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day
On-Yomi: ニチ、ジツ — Kun-Yomi: ひ、-び、-か
Elements:
day, sun
Heisig story:
This kanji is intended to be a pictograph of the sun. Recalling what we said in the previous frame about round forms, it is easy to detect the circle and the big smile that characterize our simplest drawings of the sun - like those yellow badges with the words, "Have a nice day!"
Heisig comment:
* Used as a primitive, this kanji can mean sun or day or a tongue wagging in the mouth. This latter meaning, incidentally, derives from an old character outside the standard list meaning something like "sayeth" and written almost exactly the same, except that the stroke in the middle does not touch the right side (Frame 620).
Koohii stories:
1) [Alphinux] 23-1-2008(120): Open the window, new day.
2) [ibnfe2] 30-12-2006(18): Picture two halves of a 24-hr period: Day & Night.
3) [ruschein] 4-1-2009(11): Open window because its a sunny day.
4) [Danieru] 29-10-2007(11): On Sunday, church-goers sings hymns, their tongues wagging in their mouths.
5) [pilot_sun16] 28-1-2010(10): =sun; day： Each time the SUN rises a new DAY begins. day (#12 日) is a picture of the sun. Normally we draw the sun with a circle(ㅇ) surrounded by many strokes. But there are no “round” shaped Kanji so we take mouth (#11 口) instead, and one stroke in the middle (one (#1 一)) representing all. 日本 Japan, 日曜日 （ニチジヨウび）Sunday, 毎日 （マイニチ）everyday, 母の日 （ははのひ）mother's day, 日記 （ニッキ）diary, 三日 （ミッカ）three days.