Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

月 (radical 74 月+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 月 (B), four-corner 7722₀, composition ⿵冂二)

1. Kangxi radical #74, ⽉ ‎(“moon”).

Usage notes

Do not confuse 月 with ⺼, a form of 肉 ‎(“flesh, meat”) when used as the left-hand radical of a character. ⺼ is used for parts of the body such as 背 ‎(“back”) or 肝 ‎(“liver”). These may be written identically as 月, but in careful use they are distinguished, with the inside of ⺼ being written with unattached diagonal strokes. This is particularly an issue in looking up characters by radical; compare the 月 index and 肉 index.

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/月

References

• KangXi: page 504, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14330
• Dae Jaweon: page 879, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2041, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6708

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 月
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bamboo and silk script	Large seal script	Small seal script

Pictogram (象形) – pictographic representation of a crescent moon.

Etymology

Unknown. Unger (1992) proposes as cognate Tibetan ངོ ‎(ngo, “waxing and waning moon; half moon”) (e.g. མར་ངོ ‎(mar ngo, “waning moon”) and ཡར་ངོ ‎(yar ngo, “waxing moon”)). Also compare Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ŋow ‎(“white; light colour”).

Matisoff sets up Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ŋʷ(j)a-t ‎(“moon; star”) for this, whence also Magar gya hot (“moon”).

Thai งวด ‎(ngûuat, “occasion; time; period”) may be a Chinese loan (Manomaivibool, 1975).

Pronunciation

Definitions

月

1. (literary) moon   (Classifier: 輪／轮 m)
2. moon-shaped objects
3. ^†moonlight
4. month   (Classifier: 個／个)
5. monthly
6. Classifier for months.
7. A surname​.

Synonyms

• (moon):

• (month): 月份 (yuèfèn)

Compounds

See also

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. moon
2. a month (on the lunar calendar)
3. every month
4. menstruation
5. abbreviation for 月曜日 (Monday)

Readings

• Goon: がち (gachi), がつ (gatsu)
• Kan’on: げつ (getsu)
• Kan’yōon: がつ (gatsu)
• Kun: つき (tsuki), つく (tsuku)
• Nanori: おと (oto), がっ (ga), す (su), ずき (zuki), もり (mori)

Compounds

See also

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) つき​ [tsùkíꜜ] (Odaka - [2])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [t͡sɯ̥ᵝkʲi]

Noun

月 ‎(hiragana つき, romaji tsuki)

1. the moon

   日本 (にほん)では月 (つき)にうさぎが住 (す)んでいるというお話 (はなし)があります。

   Nihon de wa tsuki ni usagi ga sunde iru to iu o-hanashi ga arimasu.

   In Japan, there is a fairy-tale that rabbits live on the moon.

   月 (つき)は地球 (ちきゅう)の唯一 (ゆいいつ)の衛星 (えいせい)です。

   Tsuki wa chikyū no yuiitsu no eisei desu.

   The moon is the only one satellite of the Earth.

2. the lunar cycle, a month

   月 (つき)に一度 (いちど)、旅行 (りょこう)に出 (で)かけます。

   Tsuki ni ichi do, ryokō ni dekakemasu.

   I go for a trip once a month.

3. (tarot): The Moon; the eighteenth trump or major arcana card in most traditional Tarot decks.

Synonyms

• (the moon): 太陰, ムーン

Suffix

月 ‎(hiragana がつ, romaji -gatsu)

1. month of the year

References

1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
2. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

1. Source: EDICT and KANJIDIC files licensed by the Electronic Dictionaries Research Group.

Usage notes

When used in compounds counting a number of months with "ヶ"(か, ka), 月 is pronounced as げつ (getsu). When used in compounds for modern months of the year, it is pronounced as がつ (gatsu). When used for poetic or lunar months, it is pronounced as つき (tsuki).

Korean

Hanja

月 • ‎(wol)
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 월 (McCune-Reischauer: wŏl, Yale: wel)

• Name (hangeul): 달 (revised: dal, McCune-Reischauer: tal, Yale: tal)

1. month

Vietnamese

Han character

月 (nguyệt, ngoạt)

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