日立

Chinese

		day; sun; date day; sun; date; day of the month; Japan (abbrev.)	set up; to stand
simp. and trad. (日立)		日	立

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Rìlì

  (Zhuyin): ㄖˋ ㄌㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jat⁶ lap⁶, jat⁶ laap⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Rìlì
    • Zhuyin: ㄖˋ ㄌㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Rìhlì
    • Wade–Giles: Jih⁴-li⁴
    • Yale: R̀-lì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Ryhlih
    • Palladius: Жили (Žili)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʐ̩⁵¹⁻⁵³ li⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jat⁶ lap⁶, jat⁶ laap⁶
    • Yale: yaht lahp, yaht laahp
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jat⁹ lap⁹, jat⁹ laap⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yed⁶ leb⁶, yed⁶ lab⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐt̚² lɐp̚²/, /jɐt̚² laːp̚²/

Proper noun

日立

1. Hitachi, a Japanese company
2. (～市) Hitachi, a city in Ibaraki prefecture, Japan

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
日	立
ひ Grade: 1	たち > だち Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Alternative spellings
日立ち 肥立ち 肥立

連用形 (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of verb 日立つ (hidatsu), itself a compound of 日 (hi, “sun, day”) +‎ 立つ (tatsu, “stand; pass (as in time); depart, go away”). The tatsu changes to datsu as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Possible cognate with Korean 해돋이 (haedoji, “sunrise”), a compound of 해 (hae, “sun”) +‎ 돋다 (dotda, “rise; grow”).

Sometimes spelled 肥立, replacing 日 (hi, “day”, a 訓読み (kun'yomi, “native Japanese reading”)) with 肥 (hi, “manure”, a 音読み (on'yomi, “Sino-Japanese reading”)).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) ひだち [hìdáchí] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [çida̠t͡ɕi]

Noun

日(ひ)立(だち) • (hidachi) 

1. growth as the days pass
2. physical recovery day by day from an illness or after childbirth

Usage notes

The alternative forms 肥立ち and 肥立 are generally reserved for the latter sense of physical recovery, possibly from the sense of "manure going away" leading to "feeling better".

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
日	立
ひ Grade: 1	たち Grade: 1
kun’yomi

The name of various places, titles, and companies in Japan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [çita̠t͡ɕi]

Proper noun

日(ひ)立(たち) • (Hitachi) 

1. Hitachi, a Japanese company
2. Hitachi (a city in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan)
3. Hitachi Province, a former region in Japan, roughly equivalent to modern-day Ibaraki prefecture

   Synonym: 常陸 (Hitachi)

4. an imperial title, granted to Prince Hitachi and Princess Hitachi