今夜

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Chinese

today; modern; present
today; modern; present; current; this; now
 
night
trad. (今夜)
simp. #(今夜)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (28) (36)
Final () (140) (100)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter kim yaeH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kˠiɪm/ /jiaH/
Pan
Wuyun
/kᵚim/ /jiaH/
Shao
Rongfen
/kiem/ /iaH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kjim/ /jiaH/
Li
Rong
/kjəm/ /iaH/
Wang
Li
/kĭĕm/ /jĭaH/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ki̯əm/ /i̯aH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jīn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
gam1 je6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
jīn
Middle
Chinese
‹ kim › ‹ H ›
Old
Chinese
/*rm/ /*Ak-s/
English now night

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 6599 14992
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*krɯm/ /*laːɡs/
Notes

Noun

今夜

  1. (literary or dialectal) tonight

Synonyms

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (今夜):
  • Japanese: (こん)() (kon'ya)
  • Korean: 금야(今夜) (geumya)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
こん
Grade: 2

Grade: 2
on'yomi

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Noun

(こん)() (kon'ya

  1. this evening; tonight

Etymology 2

kon'ya → konnya, via gemination.

Pronunciation

Noun

今夜(こんにゃ) (konnya

  1. this evening; tonight

Coordinate terms

(Time)
(Day) (Week) (Month) (Year) (Morning) (Morning) (Evening) (Evening) (Night)
Every 毎日, 日日 毎週 毎月, 月月 毎年, 年年 毎朝 毎晩 毎夜
Every other 隔週 隔月 隔年
Whole 日間, 日中, 終日 週間 月間 年間, 年中, 終年 夜間, 夜中, 終夜
Half 半日 半月 半年
Absolute −3 一昨昨日, 一昨々日 一昨昨年, 再昨年
−2 一昨日 先々週 先々月 一昨年 一昨朝 一昨晩 一昨夜
−1 昨日 先週, 昨週 先月, 後月, 去月, 昨月 去年, 昨年, 旧年 昨暁 昨朝 昨夕 昨晩 昨夜
0 今日, 本日 今週 今月, 本月 今年, 本年 今暁 今朝 今夕 今晩, 今宵 今夜
+1 明日 来週, 次週 来月 来年, 明年 明朝 明晩 明夜
+2 明後日 再来週 再来月 再来年, 明後年
+3 明明後日, 弥の明後日
+4 弥の明後日, 明明後日, 明明明後日
Relative −2 前前日 前前週 前前月 前前年
−1 前日 前週 前月 前年 前夕 前夜
0 当日, 同日 当週 当月 当年, 同年 当夜
+1 翌日 翌週 翌月 翌年 翌朝 翌晩
+2 翌翌日 翌翌週 翌翌月 翌翌年
Usage note: 前 and 翌 may be repeated further or instead use the iteration mark

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
  3. ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN