他日

Chinese

		he; him; other	day; sun; date day; sun; date; day of the month; Japan (abbrev.)
trad. (他日)		他	日
simp. #(他日)		他	日

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tārì

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄚ ㄖˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): taa¹ jat⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): thaⁿ-li̍t / thaⁿ-ji̍t / tha-li̍t / tha-ji̍t

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tārì
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄚ ㄖˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tarìh
    • Wade–Giles: tʻa¹-jih⁴
    • Yale: tā-r̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: taryh
    • Palladius: тажи (taži)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰä⁵⁵ ʐ̩⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: taa¹ jat⁶
    • Yale: tā yaht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: taa¹ jat⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ta¹ yed⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰaː⁵⁵ jɐt̚²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thaⁿ-li̍t
    • Tâi-lô: thann-li̍t
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tvalit
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰã³³ lit̚²⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tʰã⁴⁴⁻²² lit̚⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thaⁿ-ji̍t
    • Tâi-lô: thann-ji̍t
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tvajit
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰã⁴⁴⁻²² d͡zit̚¹²¹/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tha-li̍t
    • Tâi-lô: tha-li̍t
    • Phofsit Daibuun: talit
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tʰa⁴⁴⁻²² lit̚⁴/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tha-ji̍t
    • Tâi-lô: tha-ji̍t
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tajit
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰa⁴⁴⁻³³ zit̚⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: tha nyit

Rime
Character	他	日
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	透 (6)	日 (38)
Final (韻)	歌 (94)	質 (48)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	託何切	人質切
Baxter	tha	nyit
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tʰɑ/	/ȵiɪt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/tʰɑ/	/ȵit̚/
Shao Rongfen	/tʰɑ/	/ȵʑjet̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tʰa/	/ȵit̚/
Li Rong	/tʰɑ/	/ȵiĕt̚/
Wang Li	/tʰɑ/	/ȵʑĭĕt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/tʰɑ/	/ȵʑi̯ĕt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tuō	rì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	to1	jat6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*l̥ˤaj  C.nik/

  (Zhengzhang): /*l̥ʰaːl  njiɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	他	日
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	tā	rì
Middle Chinese	‹ tha ›	‹ nyit ›
Old Chinese	/*l̥ˁaj/ (E dialect: *l̥ˁ- > MC th-)	/*C.nik/
English	another	sun; day
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	他	日
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	14765	10845
Phonetic component	也	日
Rime group	歌	質
Rime subdivision	1	2
Corresponding MC rime	佗	日
Old Chinese	/*l̥ʰaːl/	/*njiɡ/
Notes	俗與佗通用

Noun

他日

1. (literary) another day in the future
2. (literary) on another day in the past

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 改天 (“on another day; some other time”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		他日, 異日
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		改天, 改日, 他日
Mandarin	Taiwan	改天
	Singapore	改天
Cantonese	Guangzhou	第日
	Hong Kong	第日, 第二日, 搵日
Hakka	Meixian	另日
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	另日
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	另日
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	另日
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	另次日
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	另日
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	另日
Southern Min	Xiamen	下日, 另日, 別日
	Quanzhou	下日, 另日, 別日
	Zhangzhou	下日, 另日, 別日
	Tainan	另日, 另工, 別日, 別日仔 GT, 別工 GT
	Singapore (Hokkien)	別日
	Shantou	別日
	Jieyang	別日
	Singapore (Teochew)	下日
Zhongshan Min	Shaxi (Longdu)	第日
Note	GT - General Taiwanese (no specific region identified)