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Days of the week in kanji

Each Japanese day of the week is a natural element plus 曜日 (yōbi, day of the week): 月曜日 Monday (moon), 火曜日 Tuesday (fire), 水曜日 Wednesday (water), 木曜日 Thursday (wood), 金曜日 Friday (gold), 土曜日 Saturday (earth) and 日曜日 Sunday (sun). Learn these and you also know some of the most common kanji in the language.

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Kanji readings, meanings and frequency from KANJIDIC2, © Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, used under CC BY-SA 4.0. JLPT levels from Jonathan Waller's JLPT resources (CC BY).