Today’s first #kanji is #夕. This looks exactly like the katakana タ, but it’s never pronounced that way.
夕 itself becomes a radical called ゆうべ (or ゆう、た) with the meaning of “night” or “evening.” Apparently 夕 is a pictograph of only half of the moon being visible.
Meaning: evening
Reading: セキ、ゆう
一朝一夕（イッチョウイッセキ）: overnight, in a single day
夕食（ゆうショク）: an evening meal, dinner
夕ご飯（ゆうゴハン）: dinner
夕日（ゆうひ）: the evening sun, the setting sun
夕焼け（ゆうやけ）: a (beautiful) sunset, the colours of the sunset
夕方（ゆうがた）: evening, dusk
夕べ（ゆうべ）: an evening
朝夕（あさゆう）: morning and evening, dawn and dusk
今夕（コンゆう/コンセキ）: this evening, tonight
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七夕（たなばた）: the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the Festival of the Weaver Star (Vega) and the Cowherd Star (Altair) on 7 July, the Star Festival
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