曜 — weekday, day of week

よう曜 weekday

よう

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.

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Meanings

weekday
day of week

Readings

On'yomi: よう you

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

Words by frequency and grade

15 words

Each dot is a word containing 曜: 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 · 5 words have no frequency rank; they sit in the Unranked column.

Stroke order

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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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#72 日 sun