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Japanese Weekdays: Monday (げつようび) 🌙 Tuesday (かようび) 🔥 Wednesday (すいようび) 💧 Thursday (もくようび) 🌳 Friday (きんようび) ✨ Saturday (どようび) 🪐 Sunday (にちようび) ☀️ When first learning Japanese, you might have just memorized '月火水木金土日' (Mon-Sun), but why do the days of the week use these characters? 🤔 Actually, they come from the ancient 'Seven Luminaries'. '日' (Sun) and '月' (Moon) represent the sun and moon, while the other five correspond to: 🔥 Mars 💧 Mercury 🌳 Jupiter ✨ Venus 🪐 Saturn This means— The '火' (fire) in 火曜日 (Tuesday) is indeed related to Mars! Furthermore, English's Sunday ☀️ and Monday 🌙 also mean 'Day of the Sun' and 'Day of the Moon,' respectively. As for Tuesdays and beyond, they incorporate elements from ancient Roman and Germanic mythology~ By the way, the way I first learned about Japanese weekdays was playing the Japanese version of the GBA game 'Harvest Moon' when I was a kid! 😆