昨 — yesterday, previous

きのう昨 yesterday

きのう

U+6628 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #226 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1144 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

yesterday
previous

Readings

On'yomi: さく saku

word

Jukujikun Jukujikun Jukujikun (熟字訓) — special readings where the pronunciation applies to the whole compound word rather than individual kanji. The reading cannot be split per character.

昨日(きのう) kinou yesterday 一昨日(おととい) ototoi day before yesterday 一昨年(おととし) ototoshi the year before last

さく saku On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

昨(さく) 日(じつ) sakujitsu yesterday 昨(さく) 年 sakunen last year 昨(さく) 夜(や) sakuya last night 昨(さく) 年(ねん) 度(ど) sakunendo last fiscal year 一(いっ) 昨(さく) 年(ねん) issakunen year before last 昨(さく) 年(ねん) 来(らい) sakunenrai since last year 昨(さく) 春(しゅん) sakushun last spring 昨(さく) 秋(しゅう) sakushuu autumn of last year

さっ sa

昨(さっ) 今(こん) sakkon nowadays

Words by frequency and grade

13 words

Each dot is a word containing 昨: further left is more common, higher up needs a later school grade (the grade of its hardest kanji). Click a dot to open the word.

S = secondary school · 3 words have no frequency rank; they sit in the Unranked column.

Stroke order

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Components

Composed of

ひ日 sun #72

乍 suddenly

Phono-semantic compound (形声). 日 (sun/day) gives the meaning. 乍 (saku) provides the sound. Yesterday — the day just passed.

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#72 日 sun