曰
Tap the pinyin to hear it
to speak; to say
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 曰 itself
- Structure
- Enclosure 包围
- Traditional
- 曰
- Common rank
- #4,227
- Unicode
- U+66F0
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 曰
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 美其名曰 | to call by the glorified name of (idiom) | |
| 子曰 | Confucius says: | |
| 号曰 | to be named; named | |
| 诗曰 | a poem goes: |
Sound family
These characters use 曰 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 曰 sound part | to speak; to say | |
| 曱 | cockroach |