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)

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
    今天一個值得紀念日子 [MSC, trad.]
    今天一个值得纪念日子 [MSC, simp.]
    Jīntiān shì yīge zhídé jìniàn de rìzi. [Pinyin]
    Today is a day worth commemorating.
  2. time
    日子我們再見 [MSC, trad.]
    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
    從此幸福快樂日子 [MSC, trad.]
    从此幸福快乐日子 [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
にち > にっ
Grade: 1

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

(にっ)() (nisshi) 

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

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term

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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