曜 — weekday, day of week

よう曜 weekday

Grade 2 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 18 strokes time

U+66DC Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #940 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #577 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

weekday
day of week

word

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

曜(よう) 日(び) youbi day of the week 日曜(よう) 日(び) nichiyoubi Sunday 土(ど) 曜(よう) 日(び) doyoubi Saturday 月(げつ) 曜(よう) 日(び) getsuyoubi Monday 日(にち) 曜(よう) nichiyou Sunday 火(か) 曜(よう) 日(び) kayoubi Tuesday 木(もく) 曜(よう) 日(び) mokuyoubi Thursday 水(すい) 曜(よう) 日(び) suiyoubi Wednesday

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

ひ日 sun #72

翟 pheasant

Phono-semantic compound (形声). 日 (sun/day) gives the meaning. The right side provides the phonetic yō. Used for days of the week — named after the seven luminaries.

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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