today; modern; present today; modern; present; current; this; now |
day; sun; date day; sun; date; day of the month; Japan (abbrev.) | ||
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| trad. (今日) | 今 | 日 | |
| simp. #(今日) | 今 | 日 | |
今日
今日 is considered formal in Standard Mandarin.
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 今 | 日 |
| きょう | |
| Grade: 2 | Grade: 1 |
| jukujikun | |
| For pronunciation and definitions of 今日 – see the following entry. | ||
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| (This term, 今日, is an alternative spelling of the above term.) |
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 今 | 日 |
| こん Grade: 2 |
にち Grade: 1 |
| goon | |
From Middle Chinese compound 今日 (MC kim nyit). Compare modern Taishanese reading gim1 ngit4.
The goon, so likely the original reading of the term as first borrowed from Middle Chinese.
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 今 | 日 |
| こん Grade: 2 |
にち > ち Grade: 1 |
| on'yomi | irregular |
/koɲɲit͡ɕi/ → /koɲt͡ɕi/
Shift from konnichi above. Used dialectally in the Shitamachi area of Tokyo since the Edo period.
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 今 | 日 |
| こん Grade: 2 |
じつ Grade: 1 |
| on'yomi | |
From Middle Chinese 今日 (MC kim nyit). Compare modern Cantonese reading gam1 jat6.
Change in reading from konnichi, keeping the earlier goon reading kon for 今, but substituting the later kan'on reading jitsu for 日.
| 時 (“Time”) | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 日 (“Day”) | 週 (“Week”) | 月 (“Month”) | 年 (“Year”) | 暁 (“Morning”) | 朝 (“Morning”) | 夕 (“Evening”) | 晩 (“Evening”) | 夜 (“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 々 iteration mark | ||||||||||
| Hanja in this term | |
|---|---|
| 今 | 日 |
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 今 | 日 |
| Grade: 2 | Grade: 1 |
Cognate with Japanese 今日 (kyō), and showing evidence of the affrication process common in Okinawan caused by "regressive palatalization", in which the earlier /k-/ consonant to shift when followed by /i/ or /j-/.
今日 (chū)
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 今 | 日 |
| Grade: 2 | Grade: 1 |
今日 (kiyu)