今宵

Chinese

 
today; modern; present; current; this; now
 night
trad. (今宵) 今 宵
simp. #(今宵) 今 宵

Pronunciation

Noun

今宵

  1. tonight

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 今晚 (“tonight; this evening”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 今晚、今夜、今宵
Mandarin Beijing 今晚、今天晚上
Cantonese Guangzhou 今晚
Hong Kong 今晚
Min Dong Fuzhou 今旦晡、今晡
Min Nan Chaozhou 今暝

Japanese

Kanji in this term
今 宵
こ
Grade: 2		 よい
Grade: S
Irregular

Etymology

/ko2jo2hi1/: */kəjəpi/ → /kojoɸi/ → /kojowi/ → /kojoi/

From Old Japanese. Compound of 此 (ko, “this”) +‎ 宵 (yoi, “evening”).[1][2]

Pronunciation

Noun

今宵 (hiragana こよい, rōmaji koyoi, historical hiragana こよひ)

  1. this evening, tonight
    • c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 14, poem 3469)
      由布氣尓毛 許余比登乃良路 和賀西奈波 阿是曽母許与比 与斯呂伎麻左奴[4]
  2. (in the morning, from the perspective of “this night (that has just ended)”) last night

Synonyms

References

  1. ↑ 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ↑ 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  4. ↑ Satake, Akihiro; Hideo Yamada; Rikio Kudō; Masao Ōtani; Yoshiyuki Yamazaki (c. 759) Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 3: Man’yōshū 3 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, published 2002, →ISBN.
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