Kanji
N1 5 strokes Grade 8

daybreak, dawn, morning

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

sun/day hi

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

master (of a house, shop, etc.)
New Year's Day; first day of the year
once
sulphur-crested cockatoo (sulfur) (Cacatua galerita)
Fudan University (China)
Moluccan cockatoo (Cacatua moluccensis); salmon-crested cockatoo
yellow-crested cockatoo (Cacatua sulphurea)
dawn; daybreak
staying the night (of an itinerant priest in Zen Buddhism); itinerant priest's lodging
husband

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

better to ask and be embarrassed than not ask and never know
to become a mistress; to serve as a concubine
to be on the brink of death
the whole year's plans should be made on New Year's Day

Example sentences

The old man leaned forward and asked his wife with a soft voice.

Hold onto your husband.

On New Year's Day, many people visit neighborhood shrines.

Once you go ahead and start, even the tiresome work of adding and subtracting figures is interesting in its way.