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"外は明るいですか?"
Translation:Is it bright outside?
November 1, 2017
31 Comments
KeithWong9
656
Sunny means you can see the sun. Bright is not necessarily caused by the sun, maybe from big outdoor spotlight?
Fovulonkiin
394
The meaning of the single Kanji 明 is "bright" and "light".
It is also a word in itself read as めい meaning "brightness". It can also refer to some other words, but those are either archaic or very specific (like the Buddhist term みょう meaning vidya aka wisdom).
It consists of the Kanji for sun/day 日 and the one for moon/month 月
You can use dictionaries like jisho.org or the Takoboto app to easily look up Kanji.