Pinyin: rì

day; date

Example sentence

今天是十月一日。

Jīntiān shì shí yuè yī rì.

Today is October 1st.

What 日 means

(rì) is a Chinese word meaning “day; date”. It belongs to the Time topic and appears at HSK 1, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.

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