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今日

今日

Chinese

 
today; modern; present; current; this; now
 
day; sun; date; day of the month; Japan (abbrev.)
simp. and trad.
(今日) 		今 日

Noun

今日

  1. today; now
  2. nowadays

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 今天 (“today”)
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 今日
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 今日、今天
Mandarin Beijing 今兒、今天、今兒個
Taiwan 今天
Harbin 今兒、今天、今兒個
Shenyang 今兒個
Jinan 今天、今們兒
Muping 今兒
Luoyang 今兒日兒、今兒個
Wanrong 今兒個、今個
Xi'an 今兒、今兒個
Xining 今兒
Xuzhou 今兒個、今門兒、今兒門兒
Yinchuan 今
Ürümqi 今天個、今天
Wuhan 今天、今日
Chengdu 今天
Guiyang 真天、今天
Liuzhou 今天
Kunming 今兒日
Yangzhou 今兒個、今個、今個子、交個、交個子
Nanjing 今兒、今兒個
Hefei 今個
Nantong 今朝子、今叨子、今吶子
Malaysia 今天
Singapore 今天
Cantonese Guangzhou 今日
Hong Kong 今日
Dongguan 今日
Taishan 今日
Yangjiang 今日
Gan Nanchang 今日
Lichuan 今朝
Pingxiang 今日晡
Hakka Meixian 今晡日
Xingning 今日、今晡
Huidong (Huizhou) 今晡日
Qujiang 今晡日
Xiaosanjiang 今晡日
Changting 今晡、今朝
Pingyu 今晡日
Wuping 今朝
Liancheng 今晡
Ninghua 今朝
Yudu 今日
Ruijin 今朝
Shicheng 今朝
Shangyou 今日
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 今晡日
Liudui (S. Sixian) 今晡日
Hsinchu (Hailu) 今晡日
Dongshi (Dabu) 今晡、今晡日
Zhuolan (Raoping) 今晡日
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 今日
Hui Jixi 今朝、該朝
Jin Taiyuan 今日、今天
Xinzhou 今兒
Min Bei Jian'ou 今朝
Min Dong Fuzhou 今旦、今旦日
Min Nan Quanzhou 今仔日
Xiamen 今仔日、今仔早
Zhangzhou 今仔日
Taipei 今仔日
Kaohsiung 今仔日
Malaysia 今日、今仔日
Chaozhou 今日、囝日
Haikou 今旦、今旦日、今旦白
Leizhou 今旦
Pinghua Nanning 今日
Wu Shanghai 今朝、今朝仔
Suzhou 今朝
Hangzhou 今朝
Wenzhou 該日
Chongming 今朝
Danyang 今朝
Jinhua 今日兒
Tangxi 耕日
Ningbo 今密、今密子、今末、今末子
Xiang Changsha 今朝、今朝子、今日、今日子
Shuangfeng 基日
Loudi 今日

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (今日):

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
今 日
Grade: 2 Grade: 1
Irregular

From Old Japanese. Originally a compound of 此 ‎(ke, “this”) +‎ 日 ‎(hu, “day”). /ke1hu/: /kepu/ → /keɸu/ → /kewu/ → /keu/ → /kjoː/

The initial /ke/ is an alternative form of the initial /ko/ (此, “this”) seen in words such as ここ ‎(koko, “this place → here”) or これ ‎(kore, “this [nominal] → this”), and the final /hu/ is an apophonic form of 日 ‎(hi, “day”). The final /eu/ → /joː/ sound shift is a separate but regular phonological change.

The use of the kanji 今 ‎(“now”) instead of 此 ‎(“this”) is an example of jukujikun (熟字訓).

Pronunciation

Noun

今日 ‎(hiragana きょう, romaji kyō, historical hiragana けふ)

  1. today
    • 712, Kojiki (poem #102)[4]
      毛毛志紀能 淤富美夜比登波 宇豆良登理 比禮登理加氣弖 麻那婆志良 袁由岐阿閇 爾波須受米 宇受須麻理韋弖 祁布母加母 佐加美豆久良斯 多加比加流 比能美夜比登 許登能 加多理碁登母 許袁婆
    • 905 Kokin Wakashū (poem #20)[5]
      梓弓をして春雨けふ降りぬあすさへ降らば若菜つみてん
Synonyms

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
今 日
こん
Grade: 2 		にち
Grade: 1
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese compound 今日 ‎(kim nyit). Compare modern Mandarin reading jīnrì.

Goon, so likely the original reading of the term as first borrowed from Middle Chinese.

Pronunciation

In faster or more informal speech, the moraic ん is not fully pronounced.

Noun

今日 ‎(hiragana こんにち, romaji konnichi)

  1. today, this day
  2. nowadays
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
今 日
こん
Grade: 2 		じつ
Grade: 1
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 今日 ‎(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.

Pronunciation

Noun

今日 ‎(hiragana こんじつ, romaji konjitsu)

  1. today, this day
  2. nowadays
Coordinate terms
  • 一昨々日 (さきおととい, ​saki ototoi; さきおとつい, ​saki ototsui; いっさくさくじつ, ​issaku sakujitsu): three days ago
  • 一昨日 (おととい, ​ototoi): the day before yesterday, two days ago
  • 昨日 (きのう, ​kinō): yesterday
  • 明日 (あした, ​ashita; あす, ​asu): tomorrow
  • 明後日 (あさって, ​asatte): the day after tomorrow, two days from now
  • 明々後日 (しあさって, ​shiasatte): three days from now
  • 弥の明後日 (やのあさって, ​ya no asatte): three days from now; (dialectal) four days from now
  • 今朝 (けさ, ​kesa): this morning
  • 今晩 (こんばん, ​konban): this evening
  • 今夜 (こんや, ​kon'ya): tonight

References

  1. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. 1 2 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3
  3. 1 2 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13143-0
  4. ↑ 1957, Yutaka Tsuchihashi, Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 3: Kodai Kayōshū (in Japanese), Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-00-060003-6
  5. ↑ Kojima, Noriyuki; Arai Eizō (1989) Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 5: Kokin Wakashū (in Japanese), Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-00-240005-0

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