I often see a tilde used to indicate a range of time intervals, for instance 「毎週月曜〜金曜日」 = “every weekday” or more literally “every week Monday to Friday”
Whenever I see this I always just say the tilde in my head as an English “to”, but I’m assuming there’s a reading for it in Japanese? Perhaps 「から」?
I hadn’t even thought to ask that question! You could say 月曜日から金曜日まで, but I wonder is that what people think to themselves in their heads, or is there an abbreviated version?
No idea if this is right, but I’ve started reading stuff like that as a pause, like a comma. I’ve never seen the tilde in Japanese, but I have seen consecutive numbers to mean a range, and that’s what I do with those.
I’m assuming it’s not pronounced にょろ when you say it out loud / in your head.
毎週月曜から金曜日まで (or just から, looking at jp wiki)
Dunno if that’s how people read it in their heads, I read things weird in my head so I don’t even have a good frame of reference.
I remember having the same question a while back, I believe it’s から. I was reading something that also had audio so that confirmed it. Grain of salt though because I don’t remember what it was so I can’t prove it 
Just went to Wikipedia to find this out, only to discover you’d done it twenty minutes ago. Oh well.
Hahaha it’s been a while since I’ve seen Churuya. 
X~Y was actually the first thing I ever looked up in a Japanese grammar dictionary because I had this question too and couldn’t figure out how to google it back then 
. But I wiki’d it because I realised there might be a different answer.
Yes, it’s kara.
毎週月曜から金曜日
やっぱり「から」だね。ありがとう、皆さん！
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