最終日

Japanese
Kanji in this term
最 終 日
さい
Grade: 4		 しゅう
Grade: 3		 ひ > び
Grade: 1
on’yomi kan’on kun’yomi

Etymology

Compound of 最終(さいしゅう) (saishū, “the last, the final”) + 日(ひ) (hi, “day”). The hi changes to bi as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

First cited in 1936.[1]

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) さいしゅ​うび [sàíshúꜜùbì] (Nakadaka – [3])[2]
  • IPA(key): [sa̠iɕɨᵝːbʲi]

Noun

最(さい)終(しゅう)日(び) • (saishūbi) 

  1. [from 1936] final day

See also

References
  1. “最終日”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎ (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
  2. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
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