Kanji 今

音読おんよみ: コン・キン

訓読くんよみ: いま

画数かくすう: 4 strokes

部首ぶしゅ: 人(ひとやね)

Meaning

Now / present / this moment

  • 今日きょう — today
  • 今週こんしゅう — this week
  • 今回こんかい — this time
  • 今月こんげつ — this month
  • 今後こんご — from now on / going forward
  • 今度こんど — this time / next time

The character 今 originally represented a mouth and something above it, symbolizing something being spoken or announced. It came to mean “now” — the moment something is being expressed or happening.

いまかけます。
I’m heading out now.

今週こんしゅういそがしいです。
This week is busy.

日
Creates
今日きょう — today (also read 今日こんにち)
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