明日
See also: 明白
Chinese
clear; bright; to understand; next; the Ming dynasty |
day; sun; date; day of the month; Japan (abbrev.) | ||
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simp. and trad. (明日) |
明 | 日 |
Pronunciation
Synonyms
Japanese
Etymology 1
Kanji in this term | |
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明 | 日 |
Grade: 2 | Grade: 1 |
jukujikun |
Shift in meaning from 朝 (ashita, “next morning”),[1] itself cognate with 朝 (asa, “morning”).
Pronunciation
Noun
Derived terms
- 明日天気 (ashita tenki)
- 明日葉, 鹹草 (ashitaba, “Angelica keiskei”)
Proverbs
- 明日は明日の風が吹く (ashita wa ashita no kaze ga fuku, “tomorrow let tomorrow's winds blow → tomorrow is a new day”)
Etymology 2
Kanji in this term | |
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明 | 日 |
Grade: 2 | Grade: 1 |
jukujikun |
From Old Japanese, first attested in the Kojiki (712 CE).
Various theories exist regarding the ultimate derivation:
Pronunciation
Noun
- (polite) tomorrow
Derived terms
Derived terms
- 明日明後日 (asu-asatte)
- 飛鳥, 明日香 (Asuka)
- 明日知らぬ (asu shiranu)
- 翌檜 (asunaro), 明日は檜 (asu wa hinoki), 明日檜 (asuhi, “hiba arborvitae”)
- 明日の淵瀬 (asu no fuchise), 明日は淵瀬 (asu wa fuchise)
- 明日は我が身 (asu wa waga mi)
- 明日をも知れぬ身 (asu o mo shirenu mi)
- 今日明日 (kyō-asu)
- 今日か明日か (kyō ka asu ka)
- 今日考えて明日語れ (kyō kangaete asu katare)
- 今日の情けは明日の仇 (kyō no nasake wa asu no ada)
- 今日は人の上明日は我が身の上 (kyō wa hito no ue asu wa waga mi no ue)
- 今日も明日も醒め果てる (kyō mo asu mo samehateru)
Proverbs
- 明日の事を言えば鬼が笑う (asu no koto o ieba oni ga warau)
- 明日の百より今日の五十 (asu no hyaku yori kyō no gojū)
- 今日あって明日ない身 (kyō atte asu nai mi)
- 今日の一針明日の十針 (kyō no hitohari asu no tohari)
Etymology 3
Kanji in this term | |
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明 | 日 |
みょう Grade: 2 |
にち Grade: 1 |
goon |
/mʲau nʲiti/ → /mjɔːnit͡ɕi/ → /mjoːnit͡ɕi/
From Middle Chinese compound 明日 (MC mˠiæŋ ȵiɪt̚).
Pronunciation
Derived terms
- 今明日 (konmyōnichi)
- 大明日 (daimyōnichi)
Usage notes
Note that the pronunciation differs depending on register, which also happens for the antonym "yesterday" and the coordinate term "today". Corresponding in formality to ashita, asu, and myōnichi for "tomorrow" are 昨日 (kinō), 昨日 (kiso), and 昨日 (sakujitsu) for "yesterday"; and 今日 (kyō),今日 (konnichi), and 本日 (honjutsu) for "today".
Coordinate terms
時 (“Time”) | |||||||
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~ | -2 | -1 | 0 | +1 | +2 | Continual | |
Day | 日 | 一昨日 | 昨日 | 今日 | 明日 | 明後日 | 毎日 |
Morning | 朝 | 一昨朝 | 昨朝 | 今朝 | 明朝 | — | 毎朝 |
Night | 晩 | 一昨晩 | 昨晩 | 今晩 | 明晩 | — | 毎晩 |
Week | 週 | 先々週 | 先週 | 今週 | 来週 | 再来週 | 毎週 |
Month | 月 | 先々月 | 先月 | 今月 | 来月 | 再来月 | 毎月 |
Year | 年 | 一昨年 | 去年 | 今年 | 来年 | 再来年 | 毎年 |
References
- 1995, 大辞泉 (Daijisen) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
- 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- 2002, 京阪系アクセント辞典 (A Dictionary of Tone on Words of the Keihan-type Dialects) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Bensei, →ISBN
- 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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