Zi:日
日 [rì] sun; day; 日记 rìjì diary; 日光 rìguāng sunlight; (HDZ:) 太阳; 昼, 白天; …
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The Shuōwén Seal form of 日 rì ‘sun/day’ derives from old drawings of the 囗 circular disk of the sun (太阳), with a central line ⚊ yáng ‘male principle’ (阳爻) representing a ray/beam of light (the interior substance of the sun is evident as pure light); in some old graphs the central line is written as a 丶 dot instead, and in the old form 𡆠 a curved central line 乙 suggests ☯ (太极, the union of 阴阳 ⚋/⚊), since the sun is also the source of the ⚋ yīn ‘female principle’ (阴爻).
Note: The SW gloss for 日 rì ‘sun’ (MC /ȵiet/ ← OC /njit/) puns on 实/實 shí ‘true/real; fruit’ (MC /dʑiet/ ← OC /Ljit/), since the sun drives plant life/growth, and is the source of fruit/food (real sustenance).
Compare: 星(曐𠻖) xīng ‘star’, which suggests that the 日 rì ‘sun’ was anciently recognized as a star.
Note: In 日 rì ‘sun’ the central line touches the left and right sides; in 曰 yuē ‘say’ the central line does not touch on the right side (except in some compound characters).
Compare: 曰 yuē ‘say’ (often identical to 日 rì as a component); 甘(𤮺) gān ‘sweet’; 月 yuè ‘moon’.
Compare: 冥 míng ‘dusk/evening’ (SW: ‘dark; waning gibbous moon’), in which 日 is said to wr. 十 shí ‘ten’ (or depict a full moon).
Compare: 汨 Mì (river name), in which the component 日 rì is said to be 冥 míng (abbrev. phonetic); cf. 㵋 mì (HDZ), under which it is said that 日 was anciently read 密.
Compare: 鸟/鳥 niǎo ‘bird’, 乌/烏 wū ‘crow’; 马/馬(𢒠𢒗) mǎ ‘horse’.
日 is the 72nd of the 214 radicals.
HDZ: 日 : rì : 太阳; 昼, 白天; 地球自转一周的时间, 一昼夜; 每天, 一天天地; 他日, 改天; 往日, 从前; (单位) 记历, 一个月内的日子; 光阴, 时间; 节度; (旧) 日辰的吉凶禁忌; 二; (国名) (日本国; 日斯巴尼亚=西班牙)
HDC: 日辰 : 日月星辰; 天干和地支; 日子, 时辰
►references: Guǎngyùn:468.13; Wieger:143a; Henshall:62; Karlgren:AD937,GSR404a; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:2.1482.1; Lindqvist:16,20; Mathews:3124; Kāngxī Zìdiǎn:489.01; Bǐshùn Guīfàn:007.0.07; Wáng(1993):31; EDOC:1
►components: 冂二囗一口
►Cantonese: yaht-
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