一日千秋

Chinese

one day thousand autumn
trad. (一日千秋) 一 日 千 秋
simp. #(一日千秋) 一 日 千 秋

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Idiom

一日千秋

  1. an idiom expressing longing and the passage of time

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (一日千秋):
  • → Japanese: 一日千秋(いちじつせんしゅう) (ichijitsusenshū)
  • → Korean: 일일천추(一日千秋) (irilcheonchu)
  • → Vietnamese: nhất nhật thiên thu (一日千秋)

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
一 日 千 秋
いち
Grade: 1 		にち
Grade: 1 		せん
Grade: 1 		しゅう
Grade: 2
goon on'yomi kan'on

Compound of 一日 (ichinichi, “one day”) +‎ 千秋 (senshū, “a thousand autumns”, poetic phrasing for “a thousand years”).[1][2][3][4]

First cited to the late 1870s.[1]

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) いちにちせんしゅう [ìchíníchí séńshúú] (Heiban – [0])[3][5]
  • IPA(key): [it͡ɕiɲ̟it͡ɕi sẽ̞ɰ̃ɕɨː]

Noun

一(いち)日(にち)千(せん)秋(しゅう) • (ichinichi senshū) ←いちにちせんしう (itiniti sensiu)?

  1. [from late 1870s] a strong sense of impatience, that what one hopes for will take forever before it comes to pass: the sense that time has slowed to a crawl
Usage notes

References tend to list ichinichi senshū as the primary reading,[1][2][4] but some list ichijitsu senshū as the primary instead.[3]

An informal survey of usage patterns online suggests that both readings are in current use at roughly similar frequencies.

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
一 日 千 秋
いち
Grade: 1 		じつ
Grade: 1 		せん
Grade: 1 		しゅう
Grade: 2
goon kan'on on'yomi kan'on

Compound of 一日 (ichijitsu, “one day”) +‎ 千秋 (senshū, “a thousand autumns”, poetic phrasing for “a thousand years”).[1][2][3][4]

Shift from earlier ichinichi senshū reading, swapping out the goon reading nichi for 日 for the kan'on reading jitsu instead.

First cited to 1897.[1]

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) いちじつせんしゅう [ìchíjítsú séńshúú] (Heiban – [0])[3][5]
  • IPA(key): [it͡ɕiʑit͡sɨ sẽ̞ɰ̃ɕɨː]

Noun

一(いち)日(じつ)千(せん)秋(しゅう) • (ichijitsu senshū) ←いちじつせんしう (itizitu sensiu)?

  1. [from 1897] a strong sense of impatience, that what one hopes for will take forever before it comes to pass: the sense that time has slowed to a crawl
Usage notes

References tend to list ichinichi senshū as the primary reading,[1][2][4] but some list ichijitsu senshū as the primary instead.[3]

An informal survey of usage patterns online suggests that both readings are in current use at roughly similar frequencies.

Synonyms

  • 一日三秋 (ichinichi sanshū, ichijitsu sanshū, literally “one day, three autumns”)
  • 一刻千秋 (ikkoku senshū, literally “one moment, a thousand autumns”)

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 “一日千秋”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten]‎[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 “一日千秋”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen]‎[2] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
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