Radical 72

日
← 71 Radical 72 (U+2F47) 73 →
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.

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  Oracle bone script character
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  Bronze script character
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  Large seal script character
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  Small seal script character

The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.^[1] It is a first grade kanji.^[1]

• Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
• Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.

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