十六夜

Japanese

⟨isayo₁pi₁⟩ → */isajwopʲi/ → /izajofi/ → /izajowi/ → /izajoi/

From Old Japanese,[1][2] read as いさよい (isayoi) in the Nara Period, alternating with いざよい (izayoi) in the Heian Period, and settling on isayoi thereafter.

The 連 (れん)用 (よう)形 (けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 猶予 (いざよ)う (izayou, “to pause, hesitate”)..

The kanji spelling is jukujikun (熟字訓), literally the "sixteenth night → night after the full moon". Compare English ides.

(Irregular reading)
- (Tokyo) いざよい [ìzáyóí] (Heiban – [0])[2]
- IPA^(key): [iza̠jo̞i]

十六夜 (hiragana いざよい, rōmaji izayoi, historical hiragana いざよひ)

Short for 十六夜の月 (izayoi no tsuki): the moon just past full moon, the start of the waning moon.
Synonym: 既望の月 (kibō no tsuki)
the sixteenth night of the month under the lunar calendar, just after full moon (common time for viewing the harvest moon in the Japanese 月見 (tsukimi, “moon viewing”) festival)
being sixteen years old
(archaic) a bet of 16 sen on a competition or game of chance
a female given name

十六夜 (いざよい)清 (せい)心 (しん) (Izayoi Seishin): common name for the Kabuki play, 小 (こ)袖 (そで)曾 (そ)我 (が)薊 (あざみの)色縫 (いろぬい) (Kosode Soga Azami no Ironui)
十六夜 (いざよい)日 (にっ)記 (き) (Izayoi Nikki): single-volume travelogue written in the mid-Kamakura Period by the Buddhist nun Abutsu-ni (阿仏尼).
十六夜 (いざよい)日 (にっ)記 (き)残月 (ざんげつ)鈔 (しょう) (Izayoi Nikki Zangetsu Shō): The first annotation of the Izayoi Nikki. Comprised of three volumes, jointly written by late-Edo Period literary scholar Oyamada Tomoyuki (小山田与清) and his apprentice Hōjō Tokichika (北条時隣), published in 1824
十六夜 (イザヨイ)薔 (バ)薇 (ラ) (izayoi bara, “chestnut, burr rose”): species of rose native to east Asia, Rosa roxburghii. Member of sub-genus Platyrhodon

Compound of 十六 (jūroku, “sixteen”) + 夜 (-ya, “night”).

On’yomi: Goon
- (Tokyo) じゅうろくや [jùúrókúꜜyà] (Nakadaka – [4])[2]
- IPA^(key): [d͡ʑɨᵝːɾo̞kɯ̟ᵝja̠]

十六夜 (hiragana じゅうろくや, rōmaji jūroku-ya, historical hiragana じふろくや)

the sixteenth night of the month under the lunar calendar, just after full moon
Synonym: 既望 (kibō)

1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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