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日光 (にっこう, nikkou) Japanese meaning: sunlight | Kotomora

日にっ光こう

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Common word›JLPTN4›Freq.FrequencyTop 10,000

Meanings

1

sunlight; sunshine; sunbeams

General word for light from the sun; used in everyday and literary contexts.

部屋へやに日にっ光こうが差さし込こんでいる。

Sunlight is streaming into the room.

日にっ光こうを浴あびるとビタミンDが生せい成せいされる。

Exposure to sunlight produces vitamin D.

2

Nikkō (city in Tochigi)

Proper noun referring to the city in Tochigi Prefecture, famous for its shrines and temples.

来らい月げつ、日にっ光こうへ旅りょ行こうに行いく予よ定ていです。
I plan to travel to Nikkō next month.

3

Suryaprabha (bodhisattva)

abbreviationBuddhism›

Abbreviation of 日光菩薩; a Buddhist deity representing sunlight, often paired with 月光菩薩.

See also: 日光菩薩

日にっ光こう菩ぼ薩さつは薬やく師し如にょ来らいの脇きょう侍じとして知しられている。
Suryaprabha is known as an attendant of the Medicine Buddha.

Usage patterns

日にっ光こうを浴あびるto bask in / soak up sunlight
休きゅう日じつは公こう園えんで日にっ光こうを浴あびるのが好すきだ。
I like basking in the sunlight at the park on my days off.
〈場ば所しょ〉に日にっ光こうが当あたるfor sunlight to hit/fall on a place
この部屋へやには一いち日にち中日じゅうにっ光こうが当あたる。
Sunlight falls on this room all day long.
日にっ光こうを遮さえぎるto block/shade out sunlight
カーテンで日にっ光こうを遮さえぎった。
I blocked the sunlight with the curtains.
日にっ光こうにさらすto expose (something) to sunlight
洗せん濯たく物ものを日にっ光こうにさらして乾かわかした。
I dried the laundry by exposing it to sunlight.

Expressions

日にっ光こうを見みない中うちは結けっ構こうと言いうなdon't say 'wonderful' until you've seen Nikko
日にっ光こうを見みずして結けっ構こうと言いうなかれsee Nikko and die; don't say 'wonderful' until you've seen Nikko

Kanji

日day, sun, Japan
光ray, light

Related words· 7

日ひ差ざしN2sense 1
日光 is the general word for sunlight as a natural phenomenon, while 日差し emphasizes the felt intensity or slant of the sun's rays on a person or place.
陽よう光こう sense 1
陽光 is a more literary or poetic word for sunlight, whereas 日光 is the plain, everyday term.
日にっ射しゃ sense 1
日射 is a technical/scientific term for solar radiation or insolation, while 日光 is the common word for sunlight in daily speech.
サンシャイン
日光 is the standard Japanese word for sunlight, while サンシャイン is an English loanword mostly seen in brand names, titles, and stylized or poetic contexts.

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日にっ照しょう
日光 is the general, everyday word for sunlight itself, while 日照 is used in technical, meteorological, or agricultural contexts to describe the duration or amount of sunlight received.
太たい陽よう光こう
日光 is the common, everyday word for sunlight, while 太陽光 is the more technical term often seen in compounds like 太陽光発電 (solar power generation).
日ひの目め
日光 is the plain, everyday word for sunlight, while 日の目 is a set phrase used almost only in expressions like 日の目を見る.

Opposites

月げっ光こうN1sense 1
日光 is sunlight, while 月光 is moonlight; the two are also paired as the Buddhist deities Suryaprabha and Candraprabha.

Don't confuse with

日向ひなたN1
日向 is a place where the sun is shining, while 日光 is the sunlight itself, not the location.

Word family· 10

日にっ光こう浴よくN1
sunbathing; basking in the sun
日にっ光こう写しゃ真しん
sunprint; cyanotype print; solar print
日にっ光こう浴よく室しつ
solarium; sunroom
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Written forms

日にっ光こうUsage99%
Standard kanji spelling for sunlight and the place name Nikkō.
ニッコウUsage1%

Etymology

Compound of 日 (sun) and 光 (light). The reading にっこう is a regular on'yomi combination.

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法ほう

heliotherapy; sun therapy

ニッコウキスゲ

Nikko day lily; orange-yellow day lily

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直ちょく射しゃ日にっ光こう
direct sunlight; direct rays of the sun
日にっ光こう性せい黒こく子し
solar lentigo; sun spot; liver spot
日にっ光こう網もう膜まく炎えん
solar retinitis
日にっ光こう角かく化か症しょう
actinic keratosis; solar keratosis
日にっ光こう反はん射しゃ信しん号ごう
heliogram