十六夜

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十六夜

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⟨isayo₁pi₁⟩ → */isajʷopʲi/ → /isajopi/ → /isajofi/ → /izajofi/ → /izajowi/ → /izajoi/

From Old Japanese. Read as isayopi in the Nara Period, shifting to isayofi and izayofi alternating in free variation with in the Heian Period, and settling on izayoi thereafter.

Derived as the 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 猶予(いざよ)う (izayou, “to pause, to hesitate”).

The kanji spelling is jukujikun (熟字訓), literally the "sixteenth night → night after the full moon". This sense arose from the way the moonrise is slightly later just after the full moon, as if the moon is hesitating.

• (Tokyo) いざよい (Heiban – )
• IPA^(key):

十六夜(いざよい) • (izayoi) ^{←いざよひ (izayofi)?}

1. short for 十六夜の月 (izayoi no tsuki): the moon just past the full moon, the start of the waning moon

   Synonym: 既望の月 (kibō no tsuki)

2. the sixteenth night of the month under the lunar calendar, just after the full moon (common time for viewing the harvest moon in the Japanese 月見 (tsukimi, “moon viewing”) festival)
3. (by extension of the "16" sense, poetic) sixteen years old
4. (by extension of the "16" sense, archaic) a bet of 16 銭 (sen) on a competition or game of chance

十六夜(いざよい) • (Izayoi) ^{←いざよひ (Izayofi)?}

1. a female given name

Compound of 十六 (jūroku, “sixteen”) +‎ 夜 (ya, “night”).

• (Tokyo) じゅうろくや (Nakadaka – )
• IPA^(key):

十(じゅう)六(ろく)夜(や) • (jūroku-ya) ^{←じふろくや (zifurokuya)?}

1. the sixteenth night of the month under the lunar calendar, just after the full moon

   Synonym: 既望 (kibō)