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Question to Teacher: Is New Year's Day元旦 or 元日 ?
Course 1 Lesson 9: New Year's Day (New Words)
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Question to Teacher: Is New Year's Day
Course 1 Lesson 9: New Year's Day (New Words)
| Syliel | Post Date: 2009-09-21 10:28:40 |  save to notebook | saved questions | |||
 member since 2009 Aug 18 Questions: 1 Comments: 0 | You have it listed as different things in the book and online. I was wondering if both are used or if one's a mistake? Thanks in advance! | |||||
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| YesJapan Teacher (George) | Post Date: 2009-09-23 07:35:03 | |||
 member since 1997 Aug 25 Questions: 14 Comments: 2557 |
I like this question. In modern Japan both  ganjitsu mean "New Year's Day" however more specifically GANTAN refers to the morning of January 1st.However you cannot say GANTAN NO ASA (morning of GANTAN) since the KANJI 旦 contained within In addition the word oshougatsu means "New Year's" also but it refers to the first 3 days of January. In some case it can be the first 7 or even 20 days of the new year.(referenced Japanese wikipedia) | |||
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