Chinese edit

 
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 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight
simp. and trad.
(日子)

Pronunciation 1 edit


Note: rêg8 zi2 - Jieyang.
    • (Leizhou)
      • Leizhou Pinyin: yieg8 ji2
      • Sinological IPA: /ʑiek̚² t͡ɕi³¹/
Note: “wedding day”.
Note: date.

Noun edit

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
  4. (Leizhou Min) wedding day
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Pronunciation 2 edit


Noun edit

日子

  1. (literary) son of the Sun

Descendants edit

Sino-Xenic (日子):
  • Japanese: 日子(にっし) (nisshi)
  • Korean: 일자(日子) (ilja)

References edit

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Etymology 1 edit

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 edit

Noun edit

(にっ)() (nisshi

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

Etymology 2 edit

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 spelling
日柄
(This term, 日子, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Compounds edit

References edit

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006) 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN