today; modern; present today; modern; present; current; this; now | day; sun; date day; sun; date; day of the month; Japan (abbrev.) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad.(今日) | 今 | 日 | |
| simp.#(今日) | 今 | 日 | |
| Rime | ||
|---|---|---|
| Character | 今 | 日 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 見 (28) | 日 (38) |
| Final (韻) | 侵 (140) | 質 (48) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | III | III |
| Fanqie | 居吟切 | 人質切 |
| Baxter | kim | nyit |
| Reconstructions | ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /kˠiɪm/ | /ȵiɪt̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /kᵚim/ | /ȵit̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /kiem/ | /ȵʑjet̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /kjim/ | /ȵit̚/ |
| Li Rong | /kjəm/ | /ȵiĕt̚/ |
| Wang Li | /kĭĕm/ | /ȵʑĭĕt̚/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /ki̯əm/ | /ȵʑi̯ĕt̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | jīn | rì |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | gam1 | jat6 |
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Character | 今 | 日 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | jīn | rì |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ kim › | ‹ nyit › |
| Old Chinese | /*[k]r[ə]m/ | /*C.nik/ |
| English | now | sun; day |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | ||
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Character | 今 | 日 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/1 |
| No. | 6599 | 10845 |
| Phonetic component | 今 | 日 |
| Rime group | 侵 | 質 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 | 2 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 金 | 日 |
| Old Chinese | /*krɯm/ | /*njiɡ/ |
| Notes | 文源謂含初文 | |
今日
今日 is considered formal in Standard Mandarin.
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 今 | 日 |
| きょう | |
| Grade: 2 | Grade: 1 |
| jukujikun | |
| For pronunciation and definitions of今日 – see the following entry. | ||
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| (This term,今日, is an alternative spelling of the above term.) |
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 今 | 日 |
| こん Grade: 2 | にち Grade: 1 |
| goon | |
FromMiddle Chinese compound今日 (MC kim nyit). Compare modernTaishanese readinggim1 ngit4.
Thegoon, so likely the original reading of the term as first borrowed fromMiddle Chinese.
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 今 | 日 |
| こん Grade: 2 | にち > ち Grade: 1 |
| on'yomi | irregular |
/koɲɲit͡ɕi/ →/koɲt͡ɕi/
Shift fromkonnichi above. Used dialectally in theShitamachi area of Tokyo since theEdo period.
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 今 | 日 |
| こん Grade: 2 | じつ Grade: 1 |
| on'yomi | |
FromMiddle Chinese今日 (MC kim nyit). Compare modernCantonese readinggam1 jat6.
Change in reading fromkonnichi, keeping the earliergoon readingkon for今, but substituting the laterkan'on readingjitsu for日.
| 時(“Time”) | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 日(“Day”) | 週(“Week”) | 月(“Month”) | 年(“Year”) | 暁(“Morning”) | 朝(“Morning”) | 夕(“Evening”) | 晩(“Evening”) | 夜(“Night”) | ||
| Every | 毎日,日日 | 毎週 | 毎月,月月 | 毎年,年年 | 毎朝 | 毎晩 | 毎夜 | |||
| Every other | 隔週 | 隔月 | 隔年 | |||||||
| Whole | 日間,日中,終日 | 週間 | 月間 | 年間,年中,終年 | 夜間,夜中,終夜 | |||||
| Half | 半日 | 半月 | 半年 | |||||||
| Absolute | −3 | 一昨昨日,一昨々日 | 一昨昨年,再昨年 | |||||||
| −2 | 一昨日 | 先々週 | 先々月 | 一昨年 | 一昨朝 | 一昨晩 | 一昨夜 | |||
| −1 | 昨日 | 先週,昨週 | 先月,後月,去月,昨月 | 去年,昨年,旧年 | 昨暁 | 昨朝 | 昨夕 | 昨晩 | 昨夜 | |
| 0 | 今日,本日 | 今週 | 今月,本月 | 今年,本年 | 今暁 | 今朝 | 今夕 | 今晩,今宵 | 今夜 | |
| +1 | 明日 | 来週,次週 | 来月 | 来年,明年 | 明朝 | 明晩 | 明夜 | |||
| +2 | 明後日 | 再来週 | 再来月 | 再来年,明後年 | ||||||
| +3 | 明明後日,弥の明後日 | |||||||||
| +4 | 弥の明後日,明明後日,明明明後日 | |||||||||
| Relative | −2 | 前前日 | 前前週 | 前前月 | 前前年 | |||||
| −1 | 前日 | 前週 | 前月 | 前年 | 前夕 | 前夜 | ||||
| 0 | 当日,同日 | 当週 | 当月 | 当年,同年 | 当夜 | |||||
| +1 | 翌日 | 翌週 | 翌月 | 翌年 | 翌朝 | 翌晩 | ||||
| +2 | 翌翌日 | 翌翌週 | 翌翌月 | 翌翌年 | ||||||
| Usage note: 前 and 翌 may be repeated further or instead use the々 iteration mark | ||||||||||
| Hanja in this term | |
|---|---|
| 今 | 日 |
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 今 | 日 |
| Grade: 2 | Grade: 1 |
Cognate withJapanese今日(kyō), and showing evidence of theaffrication process common in Okinawan caused by "regressive palatalization", in which the earlier/k-/ consonant to shift when followed by/i/ or/j-/.
今日 (chū)
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 今 | 日 |
| Grade: 2 | Grade: 1 |
今日 (kiyu)