一日千秋
Japanese edit
Etymology 1 edit
| Kanji in this term | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 一 | 日 | 千 | 秋 |
| いち Grade: 1 |
にち Grade: 1 |
せん Grade: 1 |
しゅう Grade: 2 |
| goon | on’yomi | kan’on | |
Compound of 一日 (ichinichi, “one day”) + 千秋 (senshū, “a thousand autumns”, poetic phrasing for “a thousand years”).[1][2][3][4]
First cited to the late 1870s.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
一日千秋 • (ichinichi senshū) ←いちにちせんしう (itiniti sensiu)?
- [from late 1870s] a strong sense of impatience, that what one hopes for will take forever before it comes to pass: the sense that time has slowed to a crawl
Usage notes edit
References tend to list ichinichi senshū as the primary reading,[1][2][4] but some list ichijitsu senshū as the primary instead.[3]
An informal survey of usage patterns online suggests that both readings are in current use at roughly similar frequencies.
Etymology 2 edit
| Kanji in this term | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 一 | 日 | 千 | 秋 |
| いち Grade: 1 |
じつ Grade: 1 |
せん Grade: 1 |
しゅう Grade: 2 |
| goon | kan’on | on’yomi | kan’on |
Compound of 一日 (ichijitsu, “one day”) + 千秋 (senshū, “a thousand autumns”, poetic phrasing for “a thousand years”).[1][2][3][4]
Shift from earlier ichinichi senshū reading, swapping out the goon reading nichi for 日 for the kan'on reading jitsu instead.
First cited to 1897.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
一日千秋 • (ichijitsu senshū) ←いちじつせんしう (itizitu sensiu)?
- [from 1897] a strong sense of impatience, that what one hopes for will take forever before it comes to pass: the sense that time has slowed to a crawl
Usage notes edit
References tend to list ichinichi senshū as the primary reading,[1][2][4] but some list ichijitsu senshū as the primary instead.[3]
An informal survey of usage patterns online suggests that both readings are in current use at roughly similar frequencies.
Synonyms edit
- 一日三秋 (ichinichi sanshū, ichijitsu sanshū, literally “one day, three autumns”)
- 一刻千秋 (ikkoku senshū, literally “one moment, a thousand autumns”)
References edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 “一日千秋”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 “一日千秋”, in デジタル大辞泉[2] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN