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
Classical Chinese 今夕
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 今晚, 今夜, 今宵
Mandarin Beijing 今晚, 今天晚上, 今兒晚上
Taiwan 今天晚上
Cantonese Guangzhou 今晚, 今晚黑
Hong Kong 今晚, 今晚黑
Hakka Miaoli (N. Sixian) 暗晡夜, 今暗晡
Liudui (S. Sixian) 暗晡夜, 今暗晡
Hsinchu (Hailu) 暗晡夜, 今暗晡
Dongshi (Dabu) 暗夜, 暗晡夜, 今暗晡
Hsinchu (Raoping) 暗晡夜, 今暗晡
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 暗夜, 今日暗夜, 今日暗晡
Sabah 今晚夜
Min Dong Fuzhou 今旦晡, 今晡
Min Nan Quanzhou 今暝
Zhangzhou 今暝
Taipei 下暗, 下昏暗
Kaohsiung 下暗, 下昏暗
Tainan 下昏暗
Lukang 下昏暗
Sanxia 下昏暗
Penang 今暝
Philippines (Manila) 今仔暗
Chaozhou 今暝

Japanese
Kanji in this term
今 宵
こ
Grade: 2		 よい
Grade: S
Irregular kun’yomi

Etymology

⟨ko2 yo2pi1⟩ → */kəjəpʲi/ → /kojofi/ → /kojowi/ → /kojoi/

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

The use of 今 (“now”) to spell the ko ("this") portion is an example of jukujikun (熟字訓), from Chinese 今宵.

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),[4] text here
      由 (ゆ)布 (ふ)氣 (け)尓 (に)毛 (も)許 (こ)余 (よ)比 (ひ)登 (と)乃 (の)良 (ら)路 (ろ)和 (わ)賀 (が)西 (せ)奈 (な)波 (は)阿 (あ)是 (ぜ)曽 (ぞ)母 (も)許 (こ)与 (よ)比 (ひ)与 (よ)斯 (し)呂 (ろ)伎 (き)麻 (ま)左 (さ)奴 (ぬ) [Man'yōgana]
      夕 (ゆふ)占 (け)にもこよひと告 (の)らろ我 (わ)が背 (せ)なはあぜぞもこよひ寄 (よ)しろ来 (き)まさぬ [Modern spelling]
      yūke ni mo koyoi to noraro waga sena wa aze zo mo koyoi yoshiro-kimasenu
      (please add an English translation of this example)
    Synonyms: 今晩 (konban), 今夜 (kon'ya)
  2. (in the morning, from the perspective of “this night (that has just ended)”) last night
    Synonyms: 昨晩 (sakuban), 夕べ (yūbe)

References
  1. 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  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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