Jisho

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4 strokes
Radical:
moon, month
Parts:
month, moon
Kun:
つき
On:
ゲツガツ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
23 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yue4
Korean:
weol

Spanish

  • mes
  • luna

Portuguese

  • mês
  • lua

French

  • lune
  • mois
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)
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

5 strokes
Radical:
sun, day
Parts:

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 旦過 【タンガ】 staying the night (of an itinerant priest in Zen Buddhism), itinerant priest's lodging, providing a room for an itinerant priest so that he may meditate for a long period of time
  • 旦日 【タンジツ】 tomorrow, tomorrow morning
  • 歳旦 【サイタン】 New Year's morning, morning of New Year's Day, New Year's Day
  • 昧旦 【マイタン】 dawn, daybreak
  • 旦那 【ダンナ】 master (of a house, shop, etc.), husband, sir, boss, master, governor, patron of a mistress, geisha, bar or nightclub hostess, sugar daddy, alms, almsgiving, almsgiver
  • 旦つく 【ダンツク】 husband
  • 震旦 【シンタン】 China

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
dan4
Korean:
dan

Spanish

  • alba
  • mañana
  • amanecer

Portuguese

French

  • aube
  • point du jour
  • aurore
1849 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2098 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1892 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
162 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2085 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2111 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
3041 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1548 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2119 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
30 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
13734 Morohashi
2389 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2411 New Nelson (John Haig)
30 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
30 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4c1.2 The Kanji Dictionary
2-4-1 SKIP code
6010.0 Four corner code
1-35-22 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
65e6 Unicode hex code