Radical 72
| 日 | ||
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| 日 (U+65E5) "sun, day" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | rì | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄖˋ | |
| Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | ryh | |
| Wade–Giles: | jih4 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | yaht | |
| Jyutping: | jat6 | |
| Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | ji̍t | |
| Japanese Kana: | ニチ nichi / ジツ jitsu (on'yomi) ひ hi (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 일 il | |
| Names | ||
| Chinese name(s): | (Left) 日字旁 rìzìpáng (Top) 日字頭/日字头 rìzìtóu | |
| Japanese name(s): | 日/にち nichi (Left) 日偏/ひへん hihen (Left) 日偏/にちへん nichihen | |
| Hangul: | 날 nal | |
| Stroke order animation | ||
Radical 72 or radical sun (日部) meaning "sun" or "day" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 453 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
日 is also the 75th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with 曰 (formerly Kangxi Radical 73 "say") and ⺜ being its associated indexing components.