曰

See also 日, 臼, and 白

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Han character

曰 (radical 73 曰+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 日 (A), X日 (XA), four-corner 6010₀, composition ⿴囗一)

1. say

   Example: 翁笑曰：「平昔不相往還，何由遺魂吾家？」 (In Classical Chinese)

2. KangXi radical 73

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/曰
• 量

See also

• Not to be confused with 日, which is generally slimmer and taller, and the middle stroke does not connect at the right.

References

• KangXi: page 502, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14278
• Dae Jaweon: page 872, character 30
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1482, character 2
• Unihan data for U+66F0

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Cantonese

Hanzi

曰 (Yale yeuk6, yut6)

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Japanese

Kanji

曰 (uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

• On: えつ (etsu)
• Kun: いう (iu), いわく (iwaku), のたまわく (notamawaku)

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Korean

Hanja

曰 (hangeul 왈, revised wal, McCune-Reischauer wal, Yale wal)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

曰 (pinyin yuē (yue1), Wade-Giles yüeh¹)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

曰 (*hiuæt)

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Vietnamese

Han character

曰 (viết, vất, vết, vít)