Radical 72

日
71 ⽆ ◄	72	► ⽈ 73
Pinyin :	rì (= sun, day)
Zhuyin :	ㄖ ˋ
Hiragana :	に ち
Kanji :	日 hi (= sun)
Hangul :	날 nal
Sinocorean :	일 il (sun, day)
Codepoint :	U + 65E5
Stroke sequence :

Radical 72 , meaning " sun , day ", is one of 34 of the 214 traditional radicals in Chinese writing that are written with four strokes. It is part of the date and stands for the day. 四月 九日 = 4 month 9 day = April 9th

With 115 combinations of characters in Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary , there are many characters that can be found under this radical in the lexicon. In the Kangxi dictionary there were 453 characters.

Radical should not be confused with radical 73 (曰 = to speak), which differs in that it is considerably wider. On the other hand, radical 72 is closely related to radical 74 (月 = moon), with which it forms the character ming (明 = bright) in combination.

The character developed from the pictorial representation of a sun, a circle with a point in the middle. By using the writing brush , which cannot be used to draw circles, over time the circle became a rectangle and the point a horizontal line.

Development of the character 日

Bronze font	Oracle script	Small seal script	Great seal script

Character combinations ruled by radical 72

Sun

Strokes	character
+ 00	日
+ 01	旦 旧
+ 02	早 旪 旫 旬 旭 旮 旯
+ 03	旨
+ 04	旰 旱 旲 旳 旴 旵 时 旷 旸 旹 旺 旻 旼 旽 旾 旿 昀 昁 昂 昃 昄 昅 昆 昇 昈 昉 昉 昊 昋 昌 昍 明 昏 昏 昐 昑 昒 易 昔 昕 昖 昗 昘 昙
+ 05	昚 昛 昜 昝 昞 星 映 昡 昢 昣 昤春昦 昧 昨 昩 昪 昫 昬 昭 昮 是 昰 昱 昲 昲 昳 昴 昵 昶 昷 昸 昹 昺 昻 昼 昽 显 昿
+ 06	晀 晁 時 晃 晄 晅 晆 晇 晈 晉 晊 晋 晌 晍 晎 晏 晐 晑 晒 晓 晔 晕 晖
+ 07	晗 晘 晙 晚 晛 晜 晝 晞 晟 晠 晡 晢 晣 晤 晥 晦 晧 晨
+ 08	晩 晪 晫 晬 晭 普 景 晰 晱 晲 晳 晴 晵 晶 晷 晸 晹 智 晻 晼 晽 晾 晿 暀 暁 暂 暃 暑
+ 09	暄 暅 暆 暇 暈 暉 暊 暋 暌 暍 暎 暏 暐 暒 暓 暔 暕 暖 暗 暘 暙
+10	暚 暛 暜 暝 暞 暟 暠 暡 暢 暣 暤 暥 暦 暧 暨
+11	暩 暪 暫 暬 暭 暮 暯 暰 暱 暲 暳 暴 暵 暶 暷
+12	暸 暹 暺 暻 暼 暽 暾 暿 曀 曁 曂 曃 曄 曅 曆 曇 曈 曉 曊 曋 曌 曍
+13	曎 曏 曐 曑 曒 曓 曔 曕 曖 曗
+14	曘 曙 曚 曛 曜
+15	曝 曞 曟 曠 曡 曢 曤 曥 曦 曧 曨
+16	曣
+17	曩
+19	曪 曫 曬
+20	曭 曮
+21	曯

In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals , radical 72 is coded under the code point number 12.103 (U + 2F47).

literature

• Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 184 .

For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature

Web links

Commons : Radikal 72  - Graphic representations of Radikal 72

Wiktionary: 日  - Explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Xiù cai.oai.de (PDF; 1.72 MB) Explanation of Radikal 72 on page 67