平日
平日 (へいじつ, Heijitsu) denotes a weekday in Japanese, that is, a day from 月曜日 (Monday) to 金曜日 (Friday), excluding 土曜日 and 日曜日.
The concept of 平日 is closely related to the suffix “曜日”, which is used to form the names of the days of the week in Japanese.
Warning: this article is draft generated by ChartGPT.
Suffix 曜日
Japanese weekday names consist of:
- a single semantic element (mostly a Kanji related to nature or cosmology), and
- the suffix “曜日”, literally meaning “day of the week”.
The structure is:
X + 曜日
Examples:
The suffix “曜日” is common to all seven weekday names and is essential for distinguishing weekdays from other calendar-related words.
Relation to 平日
The term 平日 refers to the subset of weekday names that represent working days in Japan:
Thus, all words ending with the suffix “曜日” belong to the class weekday, while only a subset of them belong to the class 平日.
Translation issues
Machine translators may correctly translate the suffix “曜日” in isolation, but errors can arise when translating full weekday names.
In particular, translation errors have been observed for:
These issues are discussed in detail in the article GoogleTranslation.
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