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

Pronunciation 1


Note: rêg8 zi2 - Jieyang.
    • (Leizhou)
      • Leizhou Pinyin: yieg8 ji2
      • Sinological IPA: /ziek̚² t͡si³¹/
Note: “wedding day”.
  • 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
  4. (Leizhou Min) wedding day
Synonyms
Derived terms
  • 出頭日子出头日子
  • 大喜的日子
  • 大紅日子大红日子
  • 大長日子大长日子
  • 太平日子
  • 好日子 (hǎorìzi)
  • 小日子 (xiǎorìzi)
  • 扣日子
  • 挨日子 (ái rìzi)
  • 捱日子
  • 擇日子择日子
  • 有日子 (yǒurìzi)
  • 正日子 (zhèngrìzi)
  • 混日子 (hùnrìzi)
  • 窮日子穷日子
  • 苦日子 (kǔrìzi)
  • 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 spelling
日柄
(This term, 日子, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Compounds

References

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