Word Meaning 二十三夜

にじゅうさんや nijuusanya

二十三夜 is read as にじゅうさんや (nijuusanya) and means 23rd night of a lunar month (esp. 8th month).

Meaning

English

  1. 23rd night of a lunar month (esp. 8th month)
  2. moon-waiting party held on 23rd night of a lunar month

Reading

Kana

にじゅうさんや

Romaji

nijuusanya

Stroke Sequence

4 Characters • 15 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N4 Jōyō Grade 2 Kanken 9級 Rank 81701 Priority M

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

十二夜

じゅうにや

Twelfth Night

十三夜

じゅうさんや

13th day (of the moon)

一都一道二府四十三県

いっといちどうにふよんじゅうさんけん

one metropolis (Tokyo), one "circuit" (Hokkaido), two urban prefectures (Osaka and Kyoto) and 43 prefectures proper

三十二分音符

さんじゅうにぶおんぷ

32nd note

二十日正月

はつかしょうがつ

twentieth day of the first month (end of New Year celebrations, upon which remaining New Year's food is eaten, decorations are stowed away, etc.)

二十二社

にじゅうにしゃ

the Twenty-Two Shrines

二十一代集

にじゅういちだいしゅう

Collections of the Twenty-One Eras

二十重

はたえ

many-fold

十日夜

とおかや

Harvest festival held on the night of the tenth day of the tenth month (to send the rice paddy gods back to the mountains after harvest)

十五夜

じゅうごや

night of the full moon

三日三夜

みっかみよ

3 days and 3 nights

十六夜

いざよい

sixteen-day-old moon