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漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement

翌: the following, next

JLPT N211 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met

立 carries the meaning · 羽 carries meaning and sound

11 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

ヨクyoku · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 翌日よくじつthe next day
  • 翌週よくしゅうthe following week
  • 翌月よくげつthe following month
  • 翌年よくねんthe following year
  • 翌春よくしゅんthe following spring
  • 翌朝よくあさthe next morning
  • 翌々日よくよくじつtwo days later

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成り立ち

Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)羽 (sound) + 昱 (meaning)

Source: Wiktionary, 翌 (rev. 92201406), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Stand (立) + wings (羽). Originally related to a bird "standing" on its wings or poised to take flight on the "next" coming day.”
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
翌 the following · 羽
vs粒 grains · 米
翌 has 羽 where 粒 has 米.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · yì

Same form: 翌 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
翌 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
翌 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin yì most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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