Radicals › #72 日
日
日 — the “sun” radical
day, time — extremely common 49 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.
Kanji using the 日 radical (49)
日day, sun時time, hour明bright, light昨yesterday, previous早early, fast映reflect, reflection景scenery, view旧old times, old things易easy, ready to春springtime, spring (season)暴outburst, rave昭shining, bright普universal, wide(ly)昇rise up星star, spot曜weekday暮evening, twilight智wisdom, intellect晴clear up暗darkness, disappear是just so, this暫temporarily, a while昼daytime, noon旬decameron, ten-day period旨delicious, relish昔once upon a time, antiquity暖warmth昌prosperous, bright暇spare time, rest旭rising sun, morning sun晩nightfall, night暑sultry, hot曙dawn, daybreak晶sparkle, clear晋advance晃clear昆descendants, elder brother暦calendar, almanac曇cloudy weather, cloud up暁daybreak, dawn暢stretch暉shine, light旺flourishing, successful旦daybreak, dawn昂rise昴the Pleiades晟clear晏late, quiet晨morning, early
Radicals (部首, bushu) are the shared building blocks of kanji, used to sort them in every dictionary. Learn the common ones and new kanji stop looking random.