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月曜日

げつようび

Monday

Mnemonic

Moon 月 day, and English says precisely the same thing. The week runs on the old heavenly bodies: げつようび.

Worth knowing

All seven: 月火水木金土日, moon, fire, water, wood, metal, earth, sun. English kept moon on Monday, Saturn on Saturday and sun on Sunday. The Romance languages kept the middle five as planets, and Japanese kept them as the elements those planets are named for.

Built from

moon, month
A crescent with lines drawn across it. Squeezed onto the left of a word about the body it stands for flesh instead.
day of the week
日 the sun on the left with feathers and a bird above it. It marks the seven days, one for each of the old heavenly bodies.
sun, day
A pictograph, the sun with a mark in the middle.

Words sharing these kanji

every month next month moon Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Japanese language every day Japan

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