Colloquial term for the evening meal, used in everyday conversation. More casual than 晩御飯 (ばんごはん).
See also: 晩御飯
Tonight's dinner is curry.
My mother made dinner for me.
I take a bath right after eating dinner.
I'm planning to go out for dinner with a friend today.
Let's have curry for dinner tonight.
晩御飯 is the standard, slightly more formal word for the evening meal, while 夜ご飯 is a very casual colloquial variant heard mostly in speech.
夕食 is a formal, often written term for dinner, whereas 夜ご飯 is an everyday spoken word.
夕飯 is a common, slightly old-fashioned home-style word for dinner, similar in casualness to 夜ご飯 but more traditional in flavor.
夜ご飯 is the casual, everyday term for dinner, whereas サパー sounds more foreign and formal.
朝ご飯 is the morning meal, the opposite end of the day's meal cycle from 夜ご飯 (dinner).
food; foodstuff · eating; appetite · meal; portion
Standard kanji spelling; the most common written form.
Kana spelling of the second element; common in casual writing.
Formal or literary variant using 御; rarely used in modern everyday writing.
Compound of 夜 (よる, 'night') and ご飯 (ごはん, 'meal'). The use of ご飯 is a polite prefix form of 飯 (めし).