今朝

今朝

1. (literary or Cantonese, Hakka) this morning

   我今朝食早餐嗰陣時食得太多喇，到而家都仲未肚餓。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   我今朝食早餐嗰阵时食得太多喇，到而家都仲未肚饿。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   ngo⁵ gam¹ ziu¹ sik⁶ zou² caan¹ go² zan⁶ si⁴ sik⁶ dak¹ taai³ do¹ laa³, dou³ ji⁴ gaa¹ dou¹ zung⁶ mei⁶ tou⁵ ngo⁶. [Jyutping]

   I ate too much for breakfast this morning, so I'm still not hungry yet.

   • 縶之維之，以永今朝。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     絷之维之，以永今朝。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Zhí zhī wéi zhī, yǐ yǒng jīncháo. [Pinyin]

     Tether it by the foot, tie it by the collar, to prolong this morning.

   • 昨夜狂蝶花裏宿，今朝忽飛向誰怨？ [Korean Literary Sinitic, trad.]

     From: Poem attributed to Kim Byeong'yeon (金炳淵), 1800s

     Jagya gwangjeop hwa ri suk, geumjo hol bi hyang su won? [Sino-Korean]

     Last night, the crazed butterfly slept amid the flowers; this morning it fast flew away—to whom should you complain?

2. (literary or regional) today; now; at the present time

   今朝我會到學堂去。 [Shanghainese, trad.]
   今朝我会到学堂去。 [Shanghainese, simp.]

   ¹cin-tsau₁ ⁶ngu ⁵ue ⁵tau ⁸ghoq-daon₆ ⁵chi [Wugniu]

   Today I will go to school.

   • Tang dynasty, 羅隱 [Luo Yin], “自遣 [Self Consolation]”, in 甲乙集‎^[1], volume 2:

     今朝有酒今朝醉明日愁來明日愁 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     今朝有酒今朝醉明日愁来明日愁 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     jīnzhāo yǒu jiǔ jīnzhāo zuì míngrì chóu lái míngrì chóu [Pinyin]

     'If there is wine today, then today is the day to get drunk. Worry about tomorrow's worries when they come tomorrow.

   • 1969, “祝壽歌”, in 周聰 (lyrics), 鄺天培 (music), 商台歌集第一輯, performed by 尹芳玲, 梁美嫻, 莫佩文, and 翠碧:

     年年都有今日，歲歲都有今朝。 [Literary Cantonese, trad.]
     年年都有今日，岁岁都有今朝。 [Literary Cantonese, simp.]

     nin⁴ nin⁴ dou¹ jau⁵ gam¹ jat⁶, seoi³ seoi³ dou¹ jau⁵ gam¹ ziu¹. [Jyutping]

     May you have today every year, may you have this day year after year.

From Old Japanese. Originally a compound of 此 (ke, “this”) +‎ 朝 (asa, “morning”).

The initial /ke/ is an alternative form of the initial /ko/ (此, “this”) seen in words such as ここ (koko, “this place → here”) or これ (kore, “this [nominal] → this”), and the final /sa/ is a contraction from */ke.asa/ to /kesa/ with the medial -a- falling out, as Old Japanese did not permit vowel clusters.

It is the same element found in 今日 (kepu→kyō, “today”).

The use of the kanji 今 (“now”) instead of 此 (“this”) is an example of jukujikun (熟字訓).

• (Tokyo) けさ [kéꜜsà] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [ke̞sa̠]

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/konteu/ → /kontjoː/

From Middle Chinese compound 今朝 (MC kim trjew, literally “now morning”). The /eu/ → /joː/ sound shift is a regular phonological change.

• (Tokyo) こんちょー [kòńchóó] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [kõ̞ɲ̟t͡ɕo̞ː]

今(こん)朝(ちょう) • (konchō) ^{←こんてう (konteu)?}

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