土曜日

Taken apart

1. 土曜

   どよう

   Saturn (the planet)

2. +

3. 日

   び (from ひ)

   day

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Written with 土曜日

In a sentence

• 土曜日(どようび)だよ。

  It is Saturday.

  Tatoeba #124478, translation #279516

• 今日(きょう)は土曜日(どようび)です。

  It's Saturday today.

  Tatoeba #171533, translation #242943

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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.

• “/doeubi/ > /dojoːbi/”
• “Compound of 土曜 (doyō, “Saturn (the planet)”, in reference also to the day for that planet, as originally imported from Chinese astrology in the Heian period) + 日 (hi, “day”). The hi changes to bi as an instance of rendaku (連濁).”
• “The compound form suffixed with 日 (hi, “day”) appears in common use from the Meiji period with the promulgation of the Gregorian calendar. See also Names of the days of the week on Wikipedia.Wikipedia”

Source: Wiktionary: 土曜日 (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).

What the labels mean

混種語 Hybrid

Words that mix layers, e.g. a native part with a Chinese one.

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).

Borrowing

Taken over from another language.