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日 rì — “sun; day”

How to write and say the Chinese character 日 (rì), which means sun; day — with stroke order, audio, its story, and an example sentence. Theme: Time & days.

Stroke order笔顺

日 is written with 4 strokes, in this order (the red stroke is the one being added):

The story behind it字源小故事

A little picture: the sun.

A common word常用词

Example sentence例句

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