KANAE
Character · Time

日

ひ hiいちにち ichinichiあした ashitaあす asu

sun, day

Composition

1234

Origin

Pictogram of the sun: a disk marked with a dot, squared over time into a barred rectangle.

In the thoughts

  1. 吉日kichijitsuauspicious day
  2. 一日ichinichione day
  3. 明日ashitatomorrow
  4. 日和hiyorifair weather
  5. 月日tsukihidays and months
  6. 日進nisshindaily advance
  7. 七日nanokaseven days
  8. 今日kyōtoday

Proverbs carrying this character

  1. 009 The best day to begin is the day you think of it.
  2. 070 Each day, one good deed.
  3. 071 Tomorrow, tomorrow's wind will blow.
  4. 078 Wait, and fair weather will come for the crossing.
  5. 106 The autumn sun drops like a well bucket.
  6. 108 The days and months are travelers of a hundred generations.
  7. 157 Advance daily, progress monthly.
  8. 168 Field of rapeseed — the moon in the east, the sun in the west.
  9. 175 Blossoms last seven days.
  10. 176 Better fifty today than a hundred tomorrow.
  11. 198 A thousand days of practice to forge; ten thousand to polish.
  12. 206 A rumor lives but seventy-five days.
  13. 214 Plum blossom scent — and suddenly the sun appears on the mountain path.
  14. 274 Tomorrow, it may be me.
  15. 276 Iris on the sixth, chrysanthemum on the tenth: one day too late.
  16. 282 A three-day monk.
  17. 302 One step a day: in three days, three steps.

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