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月

4 strokes
Radical:
moon, month 月
Parts:
月
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

曜

18 strokes
Radical:
sun, day 日
Parts:
ヨ 日 隹
weekday
On:
ヨウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
940 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 曜日 【ヨウビ】 day of the week
  • 曜霊 【ヨウレイ】 the sun
  • 晃曜 【コウヨウ】 dazzling brightness
  • 宿曜 【スクヨウ】 form of astrology based on the Xiuyaojing

Readings

Japanese names:
てる
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yao4, yue4
Korean:
yo

Spanish

  • día de la semana
  • brillar
  • resplandecer

Portuguese

  • dia útil

French

  • jour de la semaine
329 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
236 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
216 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
514 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2162 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
14 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
192 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2720 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.10 Japanese for Busy People
19 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
19 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
23 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
995 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1402 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
749 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1014 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
583 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
14227P Morohashi
1096 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2522 New Nelson (John Haig)
576 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
618 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
240 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3875 2001 Kanji
4c14.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-14 SKIP code
6701.4 Four corner code
1-45-43 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
66dc Unicode hex code