日

sun; day

Builds 134 distinct compound words — ranked #5 of 100 for productivity.

音 on: ニチ・ジツ
訓 kun: ひ・か

Sun and day are the same character. Also stands in for Japan itself — 日本, 日系. Dates take か: 二日, 三日.

The ten most common compounds built on 日. Tap any word that leads to another mapped character to follow it.

134compounds built

8,088times those words occur

#12by productivity alone

#7by how often it turns up

Where 日 leads

Other characters from the top 100 that share a word with 日. Each one opens its own map.

人person日本人#1 一one一日、一日中#2 中middle; inside一日中#18 本book; origin; main日本、日本人、日本語#21 語language; word; tell日本語#53 明bright; clear; next明日#64

Words built on 日

今日きょう1,145 uses

日本にっぽん1,140 uses

昨日きのう942 uses

明日あした939 uses

日ひ683 uses

毎日まいにち331 uses

一日いちにち326 uses

日曜日にちようび285 uses

日本人にっぽんじん197 uses

日本語にほんご188 uses

Counts from the Tanaka Corpus index via Tatoeba, 1,178,504 words of segmented Japanese. Tatoeba sentences are contributed by learners and teachers, so frequencies reflect textbook Japanese rather than a general corpus. Compound readings are generated — from the corpus where it records one, otherwise from a tokenizer — and are omitted rather than guessed where neither resolves the word. Character meanings and on/kun readings are written by hand.