かようび
かようび (火曜日 , 火曜日)(in Japanese) Kayoubiu, Tuesday, вторник.
Second say of a week.
Weekdays
The following names of days of a week are used in Japanese:
In Japanese, the days of a week are counted beginning with げつようび (Monday) and it is day number 1.
Then, かようび appears as day number 2.
Japanese weekday names consist of a single 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”.
Deepl
Deepl [1] translator suggests the correct interpretation of word «かようび»:
https://www.deepl.com/en/translator かようび // Tuesday
GoogleTranslate bug
To year 2026, the GoogleTranslate suggests another (wrong) translation for word «かようび» [2]:
https://translate.google.com/?sl=ja&tl=en&text=かようび%0A&op=translate
かようび
Kayō bi
Wednesday
To year 2026, according to the GoogleTranslate, かようび means not Tuesday, but Wednesday.
Such a translation seems to be just wrong; it seems to be a bug of the google software.
The screenshot of the (wrong) translation by GoogleTranslate is shown in figure at right.
Similar error appears at the attempt to GoogleTranslate word «もくようび» [3]
It is difficult to guess, how long these bugs can last.
Language variants
Equivalent names for the same weekday in various languages include:
Attribution
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References
- ↑ https://www.deepl.com/en/translator
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://translate.google.com/?sl=ja&tl=en&text=かようび%0A&op=translate かようび // Kayō bi // Wednesday (error??)
- ↑ https://translate.google.com/?sl=ja&tl=en&text=もくようび&op=translate もくようび // Mo ku yō bi // Wednesday (error??)
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/火曜日 火曜日（かようび）または火曜（かよう）は、月曜日と水曜日の間にある週の1日。