Today’s first #kanji is #曜. It’s made of #ひへん(日) with 2 x katakana ヨ (actually 羽) and #ふるとり(隹). Altogether 18 strokes. I don’t remember when I learned this kanji myself, but at the moment this is listed as a Year 2 kanji in Japan!
Meaning: to shine
曜(ヨウ): a day of the week
曜日(ヨウび): a day of the week
日曜(ニチヨウ): Sunday
月曜日(ゲツヨウび): Monday
六曜(ロクヨウ): a recurring six-day series of lucky and unlucky days that is incorporated into the Japanese calendar. In order of 先勝, 友引, 先負, 仏滅, 大安, 赤口 (for readings of these words, please click the link above.)
七曜(シチヨウ): the seven days of the week
九曜星(クヨウセイ): the Chinese horoscope in which a person’s fortune is decided according to the positions of the nine stars at the person’s birth
黒曜石(コクヨウセキ): an obsidian
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