日
rì
sun; day
No. 48 most used
How it's built
A single shape: nothing smaller to learn.
A way to remember it
A drawing of the sun, squared off by the brush.
Top 50 · accounts for 41% of everyday spoken Chinese · 0 of 50 known
Words
- 日子rì ziday; a (calendar) date; days of one's life
- 日本rì běnJapan
- 生日shēng rìbirthday; CL:个
- 生日快乐shēng rì kuài lèHappy birthday
- 今日jīn rìtoday
- 日期rì qīdate
Sentences
- 中国比日本大得多。zhōng guó bǐ rì běn dà de duōChina is much larger than Japan.
- 今天也是我的生日。jīn tiān yě shì wǒ de shēng rìToday is my birthday, too.
- 他不是很了解日本。tā bú shì hěn liǎo jiě rì běnHe doesn't know much about Japan.
- 他在日本也很有名。tā zài rì běn yě hěn yǒu míngHe is also very famous in Japan.
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How often characters are written: wordfreq by Robyn Speer, CC BY-SA 4.0, with data from Google Books Ngrams and SUBTLEX by Marc Brysbaert and others. Meanings: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sentences: Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. How often they're said: FrequencyWords and OPUS, from OpenSubtitles.