七日
7th of the month, seven days
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Examples
- 七日にパーティーがあります。Theres a party on the 7th.
- 七日間の出張でした。It was a seven-day business trip.
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Mnemonic
Nanoka (七日) reads the 7th, a seven-day span, or just seven days — 七 plus 日. It sits in the Yamato 1-10 ladder learned earlier: tsuitachi, futsuka, mikka, yokka, itsuka, muika, nanoka, youka, kokonoka, touka. 七 plus ka writes as nanoka, etymology Yamato seven (nana) plus ka (the classical Yamato 日). The July 7th date reads shichigatsu nanoka, mixing on-yomi for the month with Yamato for the day. Tanabata (七夕, the Star Festival of July 7, covered earlier under nana) is an East Asian shared holiday, observed on the solar July 7 or around the August full moon depending on region. Buddhism layered shonanoka (初七日, the seventh-day memorial after death) onto Japanese funerary practice — the first of a 7th-14th-21st-49th memorial sequence rooted in Indian Buddhist chuuin (中陰), the 49-day window (7 times 7) for a soul to reach the next life. Shijuukunichi (49th-day memorial) caps the cycle in Japanese and Korean Buddhism. Korean uses 7-il and shares chilseok; Chinese splits qi-ri and 7 hao. JLPT N5 nanoka learning integrates with the tanabata, shonanoka, and shijuukunichi cultural cluster.
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