日 rì — sun; day; day of the month in a written date

拼音

• rì (fourth tone, falling)

sun; day; day of the month in a written date

字形拆解

• 日shape partA single pictograph: the sun, a circle with a mark at its centre, squared by the brush.

Mnemonic

The sun was drawn as a circle with a dot at the centre; a brush working down a narrow column flattened the circle into a rectangle and the dot into a bar. Keep it taller than the mouth 口 and give it exactly one bar — two bars would make the eye 目. In dates it is the written form: 十月一日, where speech says 一号.

A memory aid written by HSK Guide editors. It is not an etymology and does not describe the historical origin of the character.

含“日”的词

• 生日shēngrì (first tone, high and level)出生的日子
• 节日/節日jiérì (second tone, rising)大家一起庆祝的日子

部首 日 — other characters

• 是shì (fourth tone, falling)to be (am, is, are); yes, that is so; correct, right
• 时/時shí (second tone, rising)time; an hour; a season; when, at the time of
• 明míng (second tone, rising)bright; clear, evident; to understand; next (明天, 明年); the Ming dynasty