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夜ご飯 (よるごはん) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

夜よるご飯はん

Common word

Meanings

1

noun

dinner; evening meal

colloquial

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

今こん夜やの夜よるご飯はんはカレーだよ。
Tonight's dinner is curry.
夜よるご飯はんを食たべたらすぐにお風ふ呂ろに入はいる。
I take a bath right after eating dinner.

Written forms

夜よるご飯はんUsage20%
Standard kanji spelling; the most common written form.
夜よるごはんUsage80%
Kana spelling of the second element; common in casual writing.
夜よる御ご飯はん
Formal or literary variant using 御; rarely used in modern everyday writing.

Kanji

夜

night, evening

飯meal, boiled rice

御honorable, manipulate, govern

Similar words

晩ばん御ご飯はん
More standard and slightly more formal term for dinner. 夜ご飯 is a colloquial variant.
夕ゆう食しょく
Formal term for dinner, often used in written language or polite contexts.

Etymology

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).