日 rì
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 日 — sun
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
日记
rìjì
diary
Characters in this word
记 jì
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 讠 — words, speech
- Made of
- 讠 words, speech 己 self, oneself
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 我写日记。 Wǒ xiě rìjì. I write in my diary.
- 她看日记。 Tā kàn rìjì. She reads the diary.
- 日记在桌上。 Rìjì zài zhuō shàng. The diary is on the table.