First opened Monday, February 27, 2006
日帰り
ひがえり
- flat (heiban)
- tail-high (odaka): falls after mora 4
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
day trip
Higaeri is 日 (hi, “day”) plus 帰り (kaeri, “return”), with kaeri voiced to gaeri.
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In a sentence
彼は日帰り旅行に行った。
He went on a one-day trip.
これはスキーとバーベキューとパーティーを日帰りで楽しむいいとこ取りの計画だ。
Skiing, barbecues, parties: with this plan you get the best of everything and can enjoy it all on a one-day visit.
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What Wiktionary says
Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.
- “From 日 (hi, “day”) + 帰り (kaeri, “return”). The kaeri changes to gaeri as an instance of rendaku (連濁).”
Source: Wiktionary: 日帰り (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 和語 Native Japanese
- Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.
- Rendaku
- The first sound of the second part voices when two native words join (kami → -gami).