Illustration: A small neighborhood café hosts several ordinary activities at once. An older customer confidently taps a smartphone against the payment terminal while the owner hands over a takeaway cup.

JLPT N2adverbLevel estimated by Bebop

今こん日にち

konnichi

nowadays, these days

Read きょう when it means today. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 今日こんにちますます多おおくの人ひとが、都会とかいより田舎いなかの生活せいかつを好このむようになっています。

    Nowadays more and more people prefer country life to city life.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. これが今日こんにちの型かたとなっている。

    This has now been adopted as standard.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. この意識いしきは今日こんにちまで続つづいている。

    This view still persists today.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 今日

  • 今nowOnコン・キンKunいま
  • 日sun; dayOnニチ・ジツKunひ

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