Days in Japanese on a Calendar

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As you go through learning Japanese one thing comes up in the basics, Times and Dates.  Below is a table for dates like 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc…, and Sunday through Saturday.  Sorry, I don’t have the kanji for the days, but you should be able to build it yourself farily easily with a bit of research on it   Please look over the table and start learning it becomes important and is simple to some degree once you see the patterns.  Check here for Months in Japanese.

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Summary

For the first 10 days and 20 you just have to memorize it. I have yet to figure out a way to remember without pure memorization.  However, the rest of the days are easy to figure out.  They look complex but really aren’t.

To figure out the days from the 11th – 31st (minus 14th, 20th, and 24th) you are just building numbers and adding nichi (-にち) onto it.  Here are some examples:

• 15th – (15- jugo) – day (nichi)  – jugonichi (じゅうごにち)
• 18th – (18 – juhachi) – day (nichi) – juhachinichi (じゅうはちにち)
• 22 – (22 – nijuni) – day (nichi) – nijuninichi (にじゅうににち)
• 28 – (23 – nijusan) – day (nichi) – nijusannichi (にじゅうはちにち)
• 30 – (30 – sanju) – day (nichi) – sanjunichi (さんじゅうにち)
• 31 – (31 – sanjuichi) – day (nichi) – sanjuichinichi (さんじゅういちにち)

So much like numbers in Japanese dates are very similar, because they are numbers , you just build them.

I hope this helps let me know if you need more info or not.

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