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

部首ぶしゅ: ひとやね（𠆢）

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
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  • 古今ここん — past and present
  • 昨今さっこん — nowadays / recent times
  • 今般こんぱん — this occasion (formal)
  • 今朝けさ — this morning
  • 今昔こんじゃく — past and present (literary)

The character 今 originally suggested something being “contained” or “held” in the present — and it came to mean “now.” It’s used widely in time words like 今日, 今週, and 今後.

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