ニチ, ジツ, ひ, び, か, あ, あき, いる, く, くさ, こう, す, たち, に, にっ, につ, へ

day, sun, Japan, counter for days

JLPT5 G1 S4 F1

A depiction of the *sun* → *day* (← appearance of the sun ushering in a new day). As with , the heat of the sun was understood in terms of softening objects and/or reducing them in size.

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