Radical 72

日
Radical 72 (U+2F47)
日 (U+65E5) "sun, day"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	rì
Bopomofo:	ㄖˋ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:	ryh
Wade–Giles:	jih4
Cantonese Yale:	yaht
Jyutping:	jat6
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	ji̍t
Japanese Kana:	ニチ nichi / ジツ jitsu (on'yomi) ひ hi (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	일 il
Names
Chinese name(s):	(Left) 日字旁 rìzìpáng (Top) 日字頭/日字头 rìzìtóu
Japanese name(s):	日/にち nichi (Left) 日偏/ひへん hihen (Left) 日偏/にちへん nichihen
Hangul:	날 nal
Stroke order animation

Radical 72 or radical sun (日部) meaning "sun" or "day" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 453 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

日 is also the 75th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with 曰 (formerly Kangxi Radical 73 "say") and ⺜ being its associated indexing components.

Evolution

Compare ☉ and 𓇳; unrelated to 曰, 甘, 臼, 白

• 
  Oracle bone script character
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  Bronze script character
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  Chu slip and silk script
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  Large seal script character
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  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	日
+1	旦 旧SC/JP (=舊 -> 臼)
+2	早 旪 旫 旬 旭 旮 旯
+3	旨 旰 旱 旲 旳 旴 旵 时SC (=時) 旷SC (=曠) 旸SC (=暘)
+4	旹 (=時) 旺 旻 旼 旽 旾 旿 昀 昁 昂 昃 昄 昅 昆 昇 昈 昉 昊 昋 昌 昍 明 昏 昐 昑 昒 易 昔 昕 昖 昗 昘 昙SC (=曇) 昛SC variant
+5	昚 昛TC variant 昜 昝 昞 星 映 昡 昢 昣 昤 春 昦 昧 昨 昩 昪 昫 昬 昭 昮 是 昰 (=是) 昱 昲 昳 昴 昵 昶 昷 昸 昹 昺 昻 昼SC/JP (=晝) 昽SC (=曨) 显SC (=顯 -> 頁) 昿JP nonstandard (=曠)
+6	晀 晁 時 晃 晄 晅 晆 晇 晈 晉 晊 晋 晌 晍 晎 晏 晐 晑 晒 晓SC (=曉) 晔 晕 晖SC (=暉)
+7	晗 晘 晙 晚 晛 晜 晝 晞 晟 晠 晡 晢 晣 晤 晥 晦 晧 晨
+8	晩JP (=晚) 晪 晫 晬 晭 普 景 晰 晱 晲 晳 晴 晵 晶 晷 晸 晹 智 晻 晼 晽 晾 晿 暀 暁JP (=曉) 暂SC (=暫) 暃 暑 暎SC/JP variant (=映)
+9	暄 暅 暆 暇 暈 暉 暊 暋 暌 暍 暎TC variant (=映) 暏 暐 暒 暓 暔 暕 暖 暗 暘 暙 暛SC variant
+10	暚 暛TC variant 暜 暝 暞 暟 暠 暡 暢 暣 暤 暥 暦JP (=曆) 暧SC (=曖) 暨 暮SC/JP variant 暯SC variant 暱GB TC variant 曅GB TC variant
+11	暩 暪 暫 暬 暭 (=皞) 暮TC variant 暯TC variant 暰 暱Traditional variant 暲 暳 暴 暵 暶 暷 暹SC variant 曃SC variant 曂SC variant
+12	暸 暹TC/暹JP 暺 暻 暼 暽 暾 暿 曀 曁Kangxi (=暨) 曂TC variant 曃TC variant 曄 曅Traditional variant 曆 曇 曈 曉 曊 曋 曌 (=照 -> 火) 曍 (=皞) 曔SC variant
+13	曎 曏 曐 (=星) 曑 (=參 ->厶) 曒 曓 曔TC variant 曕 曖 曗 曚GB TC variant 曙SC/TC/JP variant
+14	曘 曙Kangxi/KO variant 曚Traditional variant 曛 曜 曞GB TC variant 曠GB TC variant
+15	曝 曞Traditional variant 曟 曠Traditional variant 曡 (=疊 -> 田) 曢 曤 曥 曦 曧 曨
+16	曣
+17	曩
+19	曪 曫 曬 曮GB TC variant
+20	曭 曮Traditional variant
+21	曯

Sinogram

The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is a first grade kanji.

Literature

• Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
• Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.

External links

• Unihan Database - U+65E5