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Kanji Detail for 月 - "moon, month, monthly"

月

  • Meaning

    月 means "moon, month, monthly."

    1. Moon - The celestial body visible in the sky; Earth's satellite.

    2. Month - One calendar month; one of twelve divisions of a year.

    3. Monthly - Occurring every month; on a monthly basis.

    4. Monday - One of the seven days of the week.

  • Words using 月

    • 今月 こんげつ Listen this month
    • １月 いちがつ Listen January; first month of the lunar calendar
    • ２月 にがつ Listen February; second month of the lunar calendar
    • ３月 さんがつ Listen March; third month of the lunar calendar
    • ４月 しがつ Listen April; fourth month in the lunar calendar
    • ５月 ごがつ Listen May; fifth month of the lunar calendar
    • ６月 ろくがつ Listen June; sixth month of the lunar calendar
    • ７月 しちがつ Listen July; seventh month of the lunar calendar

  • Four-character idioms with 月

    • 日進月歩 にっしんげっぽ Listen steady progress; rapid advance
    • 花鳥風月 かちょうふうげつ Listen beauties of nature; the traditional themes of natural beauty in Japanese aesthetics; artistic pursuits involving nature themes
    • 人物月旦 じんぶつげったん Listen character sketch; comments on personalities
    • 光風霽月 こうふうせいげつ Listen serenity
    • 八月大名 はちがつだいみょう Listen the 8th month (of the lunar calendar) is the quietest for farmers
    • 嘉辰令月 かしんれいげつ Listen auspicious date

  • Origin of 月

    A pictograph of the crescent moon with a stroke marking its shadowed inner curve.

    How to remember it: A crescent moon, tilted as it hangs in the evening sky, with one line of shadow inside.

    Sources: en.wiktionary.org · mojinavi.com

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    • Verified meaning: moon, month, monthly
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read あかり, あぽろ, あるて, たかげつ)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 月

    Given names 月(あかり)Listen 月(あぽろ)Listen 月(あるて)Listen 月(つき)Listen 月(ひかる)Listen 月(まどか)Listen 月(みつき)Listen 月(むーん)Listen 月(めぐる)Listen 月(ゆい)Listen

    Surnames 月(たかげつ)Listen 月(つきざき)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    month; moon

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    moon; month; Kangxi radical 74

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    moon; month; monthly; CL:個|个[ge4],輪|轮[lun2]

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    moon; month

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    A satellite of Earth. Held by Earth's gravity, it orbits Earth and follows Earth around the sun. It always shows half its surface receiving sunlight. When facing Earth directly, we see a full moon, called 望. When at an angle, we see a half moon, called the first or last quarter. When facing away, moonlight is not visible, called 晦 (dark moon) and 朔 (new moon). | Months of the year. The moon orbits Earth once in approximately 29.5 Earth rotations. Hence the lunar calendar counts months as 29 or 30 days. Twelve months make a year. Now the solar calendar is used: January, March, May, July, August, October, and December each have 31 days. April, June, September, and November each have 30 days. February has 28 days in regular years and 29 days in leap years.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    gatsu(ガツ) ガツ

    getsu(ゲツ) ゲツ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    tsuki(つき) つき

  • Strokes

    tip

    4 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    月 (tsuki・tsukihen)

  • Related Keywords

    moon month monthly monday calendar celestial crescent full gibbous lunar new night orbit phase quarter satellite silvery sky tide waning waxing

Sentences including 月

  • She has been in hospital for a month.

  • It is no longer a dream for man to live on the moon.

  • He never fails to write home once a month.

  • You had better leave there on monday.

  • I expect to take a vacation in may.

  • School will open on monday.

  • She said that she had met him three months before.

  • We have a lot of very fine days in october.

  • The summer vacation begins in july.

  • Were you in america last month?

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