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Mythic Mandarin

日子 (rì zi): meaning and stroke order

日子 (rì zi) means day, a (calendar) date, days of one's life.

日子

Simplified
日子
Traditional
日子 (same form)
Pinyin
rì zi

Stroke order of 日子

日

  • Rì abbr. for 日本[Ri4 ben3], Japan
  • rì sun; day
  • 4 strokes

Stroke by stroke

子

  • zǐ son; child
  • zi noun suffix, as in 椅子[yi3 zi5] "chair"
  • 3 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 日子

  1. rì zi
    • day
    • a (calendar) date
    • days of one's life

Radicals of the characters

日
Radical 日 (Kangxi radical 72) · 4 strokes · built from 囗 and 一
子
Radical 子 (Kangxi radical 39) · 3 strokes · built from 了 and 一

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

日子 in our stories

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  • 后来，两个人结婚了，日子过得越来越好。

    hòulái liǎng gè rén jiéhūn le rìzi guò de yuèláiyuè hǎo

    Later the two of them married, and life got better and better.

    From the story The river-snail girl HSK 4

  • 奶奶笑着说：“给灶王爷的。他住在我们家的厨房里，一年到头看着我们过日子。”

    nǎinai xiào zhe shuō gěi Zàowángyé de tā zhù zài wǒmen jiā de chúfáng lǐ yì nián dào tóu kànzhe wǒmen guò rìzi

    Grandma smiled: "They're for the Kitchen God. He lives in our kitchen and watches over our lives all year round."

    From the story Sweets for the Kitchen God HSK 5

  • 然而，大月氏已经在新的土地上过上了安稳的日子，不想再打仗了。

    rán'ér Dà Yuèzhī yǐjīng zài xīn de tǔdì shàng guò shàng le ānwěn de rìzi bù xiǎng zài dǎzhàng le

    However, the Yuezhi had settled into a peaceful life in their new lands and no longer wanted war.

    From the story Zhang Qian's mission to the West HSK 6

Stories using 日子

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).