明日
míng rì · HSK 6
tomorrow
☀️ 明 = sun + moon (bright) + 日 (day) — the bright day coming next
明 stacks 日 sun on the left and 月 moon on the right to mean bright. Pair it with 日 day and you get bright day — poetically, the one that has not yet dawned.
日 — pictograph of the sun
日 is a pictograph of the sun, originally drawn as a circle with a dot or stroke inside representing the sun's substance. Over time the round shape was squared off into the modern rectangular form. It means 'sun' and by extension 'day'.