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日 — stroke order

ㄖˋ
Meaning
sun
Strokes
4
Radical
Practise 日 in the full tool →

Watch how to write () stroke by stroke. 日 has 4 strokes and means “sun”. It appears in common words such as 今日 (today) and 生日 (birthday). The animation follows the correct Chinese stroke order inside a 米字格 practice grid — tap the cell or the ↺ button to replay it.

Common words with 日

The most common words that use 日 — tap any word to draw it stroke by stroke in the full tool.

今日jīnrìtoday生日shēngrìbirthday日子rìziday日本rìběnJapan日記rìjìdiary末日mòrìlast day

How 日 is written

Radical
Components
Formation
Pictographic — The sun.

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