七夕

Chinese
seven dusk; evening
trad. (七夕) 七 夕
simp. #(七夕) 七 夕

Pronunciation

Proper noun

七夕

  1. (～節) Qixi Festival (the Chinese Valentine's Day, which falls on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month)

Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 七夕 (“Qixi Festival”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 七夕
Mandarin Taiwan 七夕
Harbin 七月七
Yantai (Muping) 七月兒七
Jinan 七月七
Luoyang 祈巧節, 七月七
Wanrong 七月七
Xi'an 七月七
Yinchuan 七夕, 乞巧節
Lanzhou 七月七
Xining 乞巧, 七月七
Ürümqi 七月七
Wuhan 七月七
Chengdu 七月初七, 七月七, 乞巧節
Guiyang 七月初七, 七月七
Liuzhou 七月七
Xuzhou 七月七
Yangzhou 七巧
Nanjing 七月七, 七巧
Cantonese Guangzhou 七姐節
Hong Kong 七姐誕, 七夕
Dongguan 七月初七
Gan Lichuan 七夕
Pingxiang 七月七
Hakka Miaoli (N. Sixian) 七月七, 七娘生
Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) 七月七, 七娘生
Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) 七月七, 七娘生
Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) 七月七, 七星娘生, 七娘生
Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) 七月七, 七娘生
Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) 七月七, 七娘生
Huizhou Jixi 七月七
Jin Taiyuan 七月七
Xinzhou 七月兒七
Min Bei Jian'ou 七月七
Min Dong Fuzhou 七月七, 七月七夕
Min Nan Xiamen 七娘媽生
Quanzhou 七娘媽生
Zhangzhou 七娘媽生
Taipei 七娘媽生
Kaohsiung 七娘媽生
Yilan 七夕
Changhua (Lukang) 七娘媽生
Taichung 七娘媽生
Taichung (Wuqi) 七娘媽生
Tainan 七娘媽生
Taitung 七夕
Hsinchu 七娘媽生
Penghu (Magong) 七夕
Haikou 七月初七暝
Southern Pinghua Nanning (Tingzi) 拜七姐
Wu Shanghai 七月七, 七巧日, 七巧節
Shanghai (Chongming) 七月七
Suzhou 七夕, 七月七
Danyang 七巧, 七夕
Hangzhou 七巧
Ningbo 七月七
Wenzhou 七月七
Jinhua 七月七
Xiang Changsha 七巧節

Derived terms
  • 七夕乞巧
  • 七夕紅／七夕红
  • 七夕錢／七夕钱
  • 七夕鍼／七夕针

Descendants
Sino-Xenic (七夕):
  • → Japanese: 七夕(しちせき) (shichiseki)
  • → Korean: 칠석(七夕) (chilseok)
  • → Vietnamese: Thất Tịch (七夕)

Japanese

Etymology 1
七夕: Tanabata in Sendai, 2005
Kanji in this term
七 夕
たなばた
Grade: 1 Grade: 1
jukujikun
Alternative spellings
棚機
棚幡
織女

Origins somewhat obscure.

The latter bata portion is generally accepted to be from 機 (hata, “a loom”). The hata reading for 機 changes to bata as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

The former tana portion may be from 棚 (tana, “a shelf, or a board placed lengthwise in a bridge”), in reference to an ancient ritual whereby a maiden would weave a special cloth on a hata in order to secure a bountiful harvest, as an offering for a god coming across a body of water via a tana. A related theory states that tana is instead an alteration of 種 (tane, “seed”). Yet another theory states that tana is an alteration of 手 (ta, “hand”, unbound Old Japanese form) + な (na, Old Japanese possessive particle superseded by no).[1]

The common spelling of 七夕 is an example of jukujikun, since the festival is held on the seventh night of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, now generally observed on 7 July.

Pronunciation
  • (Irregular reading)
    • (Tokyo) たなばた [tànábátá] (Heiban – [0])[2]
    • IPA(key): [ta̠na̠ba̠ta̠]

Noun

七夕(たなばた) • (tanabata) 

  1. a type of loom (the original meaning)
  2. a type of weaving
  3. by extension, a weaver
  4. (figuratively) any extremely rare visit, or the person so visiting

Proper noun

七夕(たなばた) • (Tanabata) 

  1. the Tanabata Japanese star festival, observed on 7 July
Synonyms
  • 七夕(たなばた)祭(まつ)り (Tanabata matsuri)
  • 星(ほし)祭(まつ)り (Hoshi matsuri)
  • 七日(なぬか)盆(ぼん) (Nanuka Bon)

Further reading

Etymology 2
Kanji in this term
七 夕
しち
Grade: 1		 せき
Grade: 1
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese compound 七夕 (MC t͡sʰiɪt̚ ziᴇk̚, literally “seventh evening”). Compare modern Mandarin 七夕 (Qīxī).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

七(しち)夕(せき) • (Shichiseki) 

  1. the Tanabata Japanese star festival, observed on 7 July
  2. the Chinese Qīxī Festival, also sometimes referred to as the Double Seventh Festival

References
  1. 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean
Hanja in this term
七夕

Noun

七夕 • (chilseok) (hangeul 칠석)

  1. Hanja form? of 칠석 (“Qixi”).

Vietnamese
Hán tự in this term
七夕

Noun

七夕

  1. chữ Hán form of Thất Tịch (“Qixi”).
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