曜 · day of week

JLPT N5 kanji. Readings, meaning, and how the character is built.

曜 means day of week. It is a JLPT N5 kanji written in 18 strokes, read よう. It is built from 2 parts: 日 (day, sun), 翟 (surname, kind of pheasant). It appears in 火曜日 (Tuesday) and 金曜日 (Friday).

筆順 · Stroke order

曜 is written in 18 strokes, in the order numbered below. Order matters: it is what makes handwriting legible, and it is how the character is looked up in a paper dictionary.

解字 · What it is made of

曜 breaks into 2 parts.

• 日 semantic day, sun · left carries the meaning
• 翟 other surname, kind of pheasant · right component

Words that use 曜

Word	Reading	Meaning
火曜日	かようび	Tuesday
金曜日	きんようび	Friday
月曜日	げつようび	Monday

Built from the same parts

These use 日 or 翟 too. The part keeps its job from one character to the next, which is what makes it worth learning once.

• 時time
• 書to write
• 明bright
• 映to reflect
• 早early
• 春springtime
• 者someone
• 音sound

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