金曜日

Pattern visualization

Examples

1. 金曜日に飲み会があります。▶ —
   Theres a drinks gathering on Friday.
2. 金曜の夜は街が賑やか。▶ —
   Friday nights the streets are lively.

Collocations

Mnemonic

Kinyoubi (金曜日) is Friday — 金 (metal, gold) covers the Five-Element metal and the planet 金星 (kinsei, Venus). 金 reads kin in day names, compounds, and gold itself; kon in a few alternates like goukin (alloy) and chingin (wages); kane as the Yamato standalone for money, as in kane ga nai (no money). Culturally, Friday opens the Japanese workers weekend — nomikai (drinking parties) concentrate here. Puremiamu furaidee (Premium Friday), launched in 2017 by METI and Keidanren, encourages clocking out at 3 PM on the last Friday of each month (covered earlier under isshuukan) as part of hatarakikata kaikaku reform, although uptake stayed under 9 percent of firms five years in. Hana-kin (gaudy Friday) is the 1980s bubble-era coinage for going out in style on Friday night. The Kin-you Road Show film slot (Nippon TV, running since 1985) cycles Studio Ghibli films like Castle in the Sky and Princess Mononoke, anchoring Friday-equals-movie-night in Japanese consciousness. Korean uses identical kinyoil; Chinese xingqi-go diverges.

Quick check

1. Origin era of hana-kin (華金)?

   • 1980s Japanese bubble economy (1986-1991)
   • Edo period
   • Meiji period
   • 2000s