日

• 読み: ひ
• ローマ字: hi
• 漢字の分解: 日 (nichi/hi) — day, sun
• 発音: /çi/

意味

Day; days; sun; sunshine. A fundamental time word used constantly in daily Japanese.

One of the most frequently used kanji in Japanese with multiple readings: ひ (day/sun), にち (day counter/Sunday), か (day of month), and じつ (day, in compounds). Appears in countless words: 今日 (today), 毎日 (every day), 誕生日 (birthday), 日本 (Japan).

例文

1. 今日はいい日ですね。
2. 毎日三十分歩いています。
3. 出発の日が近づいてきた。

使い方ガイド

場面: calendar, daily life, weather

トーン: neutral

起源と歴史

One of the simplest and oldest kanji, depicting the sun. The character evolved from a circle with a dot in the centre to the rectangular form used today. It is a radical (部首) used in many other kanji.

文化的背景

時代: Ancient

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal