今日
きょう
hepburn kyou
today
Part of speech · noun
Pattern visualization
今now
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日sun
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Examples
- 今日は月曜日です。Today is Monday.
- 今日の天気はいいですね。The weather is nice today.
Collocations
今日は今日の今日中に今日から今日まで
Mnemonic
今日 kyou — kanji 今 (now) + 日 (day). Pronunciation is irregular: not the expected konnichi but きょう (kyou). This is jukujikun — a reading assigned to the whole compound rather than each kanji. Same pattern: 明日 ashita, 昨日 kinou. Memorize compound by compound.
Quick check
Which word shares the same irregular reading pattern (jukujikun) as 今日?