日子

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 pm-1 am; midnight
simp. and trad.
(日子)
日 子

Pronunciation 1


Note: rêg8 zi2 - Jieyang.
  • Xiang
    • (Changsha)
      • Wiktionary: r6 zr / nyi6 zr
      • Sinological IPA (key): /ʐ̩²⁴ t͡sz̩³/, /n̠ʲi²⁴ t͡sz̩³/
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. [Pinyin]
    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. [Pinyin]
    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 [Pinyin]
    to live happily ever after
Synonyms
Derived terms
  • 苦日子
  • 出頭日子/出头日子
  • 大紅日子/大红日子
  • 大長日子/大长日子
  • 擇日子/择日子
  • 窮日子/穷日子
  • 過日子/过日子 (guò rìzi)
  • 關著門過日子/关著门过日子
  • 龍虎日子/龙虎日子

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】
[noun] day, date
[noun] (obsolete) Alternative form of ひがらめ (higarame)
Alternative spellings
日柄, 日子
(This term, 日子, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Compounds

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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