Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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

1. say
2. Kangxi radical #73, ⽈ ‎(“say”).

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/曰
• 量

See also

• Not to be confused with 日, which is generally slimmer and taller, and has a middle stroke that extends to both sides.
• 冃 is sometimes simplified to 曰, as in 冒

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

Chinese

Pronunciation

Verb

曰

1. (classical) to say, to speak

   翁笑曰：「平昔不相往還，何由遺魂吾家？」 [Classical Chinese, trad.]

   翁笑曰：“平昔不相往还，何由遗魂吾家？” [Classical Chinese, simp.]

   From: 聊齋志異, 第02卷

   Wēng xiào yuē: "píng xī bù xiàng wǎng hái, hé yóu yí hún wú jiā?" [Pinyin]

   The old man laughed and said, "In normal days we don't have much of a relation, why would you want to call back the dead's soul in my house?"

References

• “Query for 曰”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan], Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.
• (Cantonese) Multi-function Chinese Character Database (漢語多功能字庫)

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: おち (ochi) < をち (wochi)
• Kan’on: えつ (etsu) < ゑつ (wetsu)
• Kun: いう (iu), いわく (iwaku), のたまわく (notamawaku)

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

曰 (viết, vất, vết, vít)

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