お昼

Japanese

Kanji in this term
昼
ひる
Grade: 2
kun’yomi
Alternative spellings
お晝 (kyūjitai)
御昼

Etymology

Compound of お (o-, “honorific prefix”) +‎ 昼 (hiru, “daytime; midday, noon”).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) おひ​る [òhíꜜrù] (Nakadaka – [2])[1]
  • IPA(key): [o̞çiɾɯ̟ᵝ]

Noun

お昼(ひる) • (ohiru) 

  1. daytime, the daylight hours
  2. midday, noon
  3. (by extension) the midday meal, lunch

Usage notes

Most commonly written using the hiragana お for the prefix o-, instead of the kanji 御.

Derived terms

References

  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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