日子

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Chinese

day; sun; date
day; sun; date; day of the month; Japan (abbrev.)
 
child; son; (noun suffix)
child; son; (noun suffix); small thing; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch; 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight
 
simp. and trad.
(日子) 		日 子

Pronunciation 1

Note: rêg8 zi2/rêg8 ze2 - Jieyang.
    • (Leizhou)
      • Leizhou Pinyin: yieg8 ji2
      • Sinological IPA: /ziek̚² t͡si³¹/
Note: “wedding day”.
Note: date.

Noun

日子

  1. date; day
    今天是一個值得紀念的日子。 [MSC, trad.]
    今天是一个值得纪念的日子。 [MSC, simp.]
    Jīntiān shì yīge zhídé jìniàn de rìzi.
    Today is a day worth commemorating.
  2. time
    過些日子我們再見。 [MSC, trad.]
    过些日子我们再见。 [MSC, simp.]
    Guò xiē rìzi wǒmen zàijiàn.
    We will see each other again after quite some time.
  3. one's life; days in one's life
    混混日子而已  ―  hùnhùn rìzi éryǐ  ―  to just drift through life
    從此過著幸福快樂的日子 [MSC, trad.]
    从此过着幸福快乐的日子 [MSC, simp.]
    cóngcǐ guòzhe xìngfú kuàilè de rìzi
    to live happily ever after
  4. (Leizhou Min) wedding day
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 日子 (“date; day”)
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 日子
Northeastern Mandarin Beijing 日子
Taiwan 日子
Harbin 日子
Singapore 日子
Jilu Mandarin Jinan 日子
Jiaoliao Mandarin Yantai (Muping) 日子兒, 日期兒
Central Plains Mandarin Luoyang 日子兒
Wanrong 日子
Xi'an 日子
Xining 日子
Xuzhou 日子
Lanyin Mandarin Yinchuan 日子
Southwestern Mandarin Chengdu 日子
Wuhan 日子
Guiyang 日期, 日子
Liuzhou 日子
Jianghuai Mandarin Nanjing 日子
Yangzhou 日子
Hefei 日子
Cantonese Guangzhou 日子
Hong Kong 日子
Dongguan 日子
Yangjiang 日子
Singapore (Guangfu) 日子
Gan Nanchang 日子
Lichuan 日子
Pingxiang 日子
Hakka Meixian 日仔
Yudu 日子
Huizhou Jixi 日子, 日子腳
Jin Taiyuan 日子
Xinzhou 日子
Northern Min Jian'ou 日仔, 日關
Eastern Min Fuzhou 日子
Southern Min Xiamen 日子
Jinjiang 日子
Singapore (Hokkien) 日子
Manila (Hokkien) 日子
Chaozhou 日子
Haikou 日子
Southern Pinghua Nanning (Tingzi) 日子
Wu Shanghai 日腳
Shanghai (Chongming) 日腳
Suzhou 日腳
Danyang 日腳
Hangzhou 日子
Hangzhou (Yuhang) 日腳
Ningbo 日腳
Wenzhou 日子, 日
Jinhua 日子
Xiang Changsha 日子
Loudi 日子
Shuangfeng 日子
Derived terms

Pronunciation 2

Noun

日子

  1. (literary) son of the Sun

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (日子):
  • → Japanese: 日子(にっし) (nisshi)
  • → Korean: 일자(日子) (ilja)

References

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
日 子
にち > にっ
Grade: 1 		し
Grade: 1
goon

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “From Middle Chinese?”)

Pronunciation

Noun

日(にっ)子(し) • (nisshi) 

  1. a day, date
    Synonyms: 日数 (nissu, hikazu), 日柄 (higara)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
日 子
ひ
Grade: 1 		Grade: 1
kun'yomi irregular
For pronunciation and definitions of 日子 – see the following entry.
【ひがら】
day, date
(obsolete) Alternative form of ひがらめ (higarame)
Alternative spelling
日柄
(This term, 日子, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Compounds

Compounds

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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