こんばんは

• 読み: こんばんは
• ローマ字: konbanwa
• 漢字の分解: 今 (kon/ima) — now, present; 晩 (ban) — evening, night
• 発音: /koɴ.baɴ.wa/

意味

Good evening. A greeting used after sunset or in the evening hours.

Written in kanji as 今晩は, but almost always appears in hiragana. Like こんにちは, it has no casual/polite variation. Typically used from around sunset onward when meeting someone for the first time that evening.

例文

1. こんばんは、お元気ですか。
2. 夜の散歩で友達にこんばんはと言った。
3. こんばんは、今日は寒いですね。

使い方ガイド

場面: evening greetings, social events, meeting neighbors

トーン: neutral

起源と歴史

From 今晩は (this evening), originally part of a longer greeting 今晩はいかがですか. The abbreviated form became the standard evening greeting.

文化的背景

時代: Edo period

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal