Japanese edit

Etymology 1 edit

For pronunciation and definitions of てつや – see the following entry.
徹夜
[noun] being awake all night
[noun] vigil, wake
[verb] to stay up all night, to burn the midnight oil
(This term, てつや, is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)

Etymology 2 edit

Pronunciation edit

Proper noun edit

てつや (Tetsuya

  1. 哲也, 徹也, 鉄也, 哲哉, 徹哉: a male given name