12 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
14 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
16 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
26 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
2169 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
13 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
59 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
80 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
1.A | Japanese for Busy People |
17 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
17 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
17 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
1002 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
3674 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
1876 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
2556 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
13 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
14330 | Morohashi |
2956 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
2530 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
13 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
13 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
66 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
28 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
月
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
23 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 月 【ゲツ】 Monday
- 月額 【ゲツガク】 monthly amount (sum)
- 隔月 【カクゲツ】 every second month, every other month
- 望月 【モチヅキ】 full moon, moon on the 15th day of the month (by the lunar calendar), full moon of the eighth lunar month
- 月輪 【ゲツリン】 (full) moon, moon when it's round
- 旧正月 【キュウショウガツ】 lunar New Year (esp. the Chinese New Year)
- お正月 【オショウガツ】 New Year (esp. first three days), first month of the year, January
Kun reading compounds
- 月 【つき】 Moon, month, moonlight, (a) moon, natural satellite
- 月末 【げつまつ】 end of the month
- 卯月 【うづき】 fourth month of the lunar calendar
- 祥月 【しょうつき】 month of a person's death
Readings
- Japanese names:
- おと、 がっ、 す、 ずき、 もり
- Korean:
- weol
Spanish
- mes
- luna
Portuguese
- mês
- lua
French
- lune
- mois
3946 | 2001 Kanji |
4b0.1 | The Kanji Dictionary |
3-2-2 | SKIP code |
4-4-1 | SKIP code |
7722.0 | Four corner code |
1-23-78 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
6708 | Unicode hex code |
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 暈 【カサ】 halo (around the Sun, Moon, etc.), ring, corona
- 繧繝 【ウンゲン】 ungen, method of dyeing in which a color repeatedly goes from dense to diffuse, diffuse to dense; used in Buddhist pictures, temple ornaments, etc., during the Nara and Heian periods
- 乳暈 【ニュウウン】 areola mammae (circular area around nipple), areola
- 日暈 【ヒガサ】 solar halo
Kun reading compounds
- 暈す 【ぼかす】 to blur, to shade off, to gradate, to obscure, to make ambiguous
- 暈ける 【ぼける】 to be faded, to be hazy, to be blurred, to be out of focus
- 暈 【かさ】 halo (around the Sun, Moon, etc.), ring, corona
- 隈 【くま】 corner, nook, recess, shade, shadow, dark area, dark circles (under the eyes), dark rings, bend (in a road, river, etc.), shading, gradation, kumadori, style of kabuki makeup used for violent roles
- 隈取り 【くまどり】 shading, (colour) gradation, kumadori, style of kabuki makeup used for violent roles
- 暈し 【ぼかし】 blurring (e.g. of an image), blur, gradient, gradation, shading, bokashi composting, fermented composting
- ぼかし染め 【ぼかしぞめ】 gradation dyeing
Readings
- Korean:
- hun, un
Spanish
Portuguese
French
2151 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
1997 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
14037 | Morohashi |
2500 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
2439 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
2516 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
4c9.7 | The Kanji Dictionary |
2-4-9 | SKIP code |
6050.6 | Four corner code |
1-58-84 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
6688 | Unicode hex code |