日
Meaning
- (bound form) sun
- day
- day of the month
Example sentence
这是日本。
Here is Japan.
The character 日
日 is the sun with a mark in the middle, and from the sun comes the day: 生日 a birthday, 日期 a date, 星期日 Sunday, 日记 a diary. Written dates use 日 where speech says 号.