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On reading compounds

  • 臘 【ロウ】 offering ceremony held on the third day of the dog after the winter solstice, twelfth month of the lunisolar calendar, year in the Buddhist order (after the completion of the first meditation retreat)
  • 臘月 【ロウゲツ】 twelfth lunar month, 12th month of the lunar calendar
  • 劫臈 【コウロウ】 long time, long years of service
  • 旧臘 【キュウロウ】 last December, end of last year

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
la4, xi1
Korean:
rab

Spanish

Portuguese

French

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30009 Morohashi
4888 New Nelson (John Haig)
4b15.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-15 SKIP code
7221.7 Four corner code
7221.6 Four corner code
1-71-36 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
81d8 Unicode hex code

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
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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
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17 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
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1002 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
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1876 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2556 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
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14330 Morohashi
2956 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2530 New Nelson (John Haig)
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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