First opened Saturday, May 23, 2009
月日
つきひ
- middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 2
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).
time, years, days
“Time” is the moon (or month) and the sun (or day), side by side.
Taken apart
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In a sentence
その二つの事件の間には何年もの月日が経っている。
Years intervene between the two incidents.
知らないうちに月日は経ってしまう、俺はチャンスを逃したくない。
The years go by before I know, so I don't wanna miss this chance.
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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.
- “Compound of 月 (tsuki, “moon, month”) + 日 (hi, “sun, day”).”
Source: Wiktionary: 月日 (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).
Other readings of 月日 on the same Wiktionary page
These describe other words written the same way, not つきひ. They are quoted for context: the parts, layer and processes of this word are not taken from them.
がっぴ
- “Compound of 月 (gatsu, “month”) + 日 (hi, “day”).”
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.