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日曜日

日曜日

Chinese

 
day; sun; date; day of the month; Japan (abbrev.)
shining; bright
simp. and trad.
(日曜日)
曜日

Alternative forms

  • 日耀日

Noun

日曜日

  1. (classical, archaic) Sunday

Synonyms


Japanese

Kanji in this term
にち
Grade: 1
よう
Grade: 2
ひ > び
Grade: 1
jūbakoyomi

Etymology

Compound of 日曜 (Nichiyō, Sunday) + (hi, day). The hi changes to bi as an instance of rendaku (連濁). .

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) ちようび [nìchíyóꜜòbì] (Nakadaka - [3])[1]
  • IPA(key): [nit͡ɕijo̞ːbi]

Alternative forms

Noun

日曜日 (hiragana にちようび, romaji nichiyōbi, historical hiragana にちえうび)

  1. Sunday

Synonyms

See also

References

  1. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja in this term

Noun

日曜日 (iryoil) (hangeul 일요일)

  1. Hanja form? of 일요일, “Sunday”.