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かようび（火曜日、火・曜・日、in Japanese） is the Japanese name for the English word Tuesday. It is one of the seven days of the week.
The pronunciation of かようび in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is /kaꜜjoːbi/.
かようび corresponds to the second weekday when counting from Monday, or to the third day in the common USA sequence Sunday → Monday → Tuesday.
Weekday sequence
The following list shows the Japanese names of the days of the week and their English equivalents.
| # | Japanese | Reading | English |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 月曜日 | げつようび | Monday |
| 2 | 火曜日 | かようび | Tuesday |
| 3 | 水曜日 | すいようび | Wednesday |
| 4 | 木曜日 | もくようび | Thursday |
| 5 | 金曜日 | きんようび | Friday |
| 6 | 土曜日 | どようび | Saturday |
| 7 | 日曜日 | にちようび | Sunday |
The correspondence between Japanese weekday names and English weekday names is well established in dictionaries and linguistic references. For example, “火曜日 (かようび)” means “Tuesday”.
Language variants
Equivalent names for the same weekday in other languages include:
Machine translation
DeepL
DeepL automatic translator translates “かようび” as “Tuesday”. [1]
GoogleTranslate
In standard usage, Google Translate also translates “かようび” as “Tuesday”. Occasional anomalous outputs may occur due to input formatting, contextual artifacts, or user-interface effects; these do not reflect a change in the lexical meaning of the Japanese word.
Notes
- Japanese weekday names consist of a kanji element and the suffix “曜日”, meaning “day of the week”.
- Machine translation results can vary depending on context and interface conditions, but the lexical meaning of “かようび” remains “Tuesday”.
Attribution
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