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JLPT N3 · Calendar

元日

がんじつ

New Year's Day

Stroke order of 元日

2 characters, 8 strokes in total. Watch the animation, then try writing it yourself.

元 · 4 strokes日 · 4 strokes

Memory trick

A person's head 元 is the origin, and 日 the sun rises on the first morning of the year.

Parts: 元 origin + 日 day

The characters in 元日

  • 日 ひ — day; sun (4 strokes)

Example sentence

元日にお雑煮を食べます。

がんじつにおぞうにをたべます。

I eat ozoni soup on New Year's Day.

Words with 元

Words with 日

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