日
ニチ • ジツ
ひ • -び • -か
day; sun; Japan; counter for days
Words
初朔日
はつついたち
- first day of the second month n
日本蝮
にほんまむし ニホンマムシ
- Japanese copperhead (Gloydius blomhoffii); mamushi pit-viper n uk
十日夜
とおかんや とおかや
- Harvest festival held on the night of the tenth day of the tenth month (to send the rice paddy gods back to the mountains after harvest) n
三十日蕎麦
みそかそば
- soba eaten at the end of the month (esp. at the end of the year) n
二十日正月
はつかしょうがつ
- twentieth day of the first month (end of New Year celebrations, upon which remaining New Year's food is eaten, decorations are stowed away, etc.) n