月 (yuè): meaning and stroke order
月 (yuè) means moon, month, monthly, 个轮.
月
- Simplified
- 月
- Traditional
- 月 (same form)
- Pinyin
- yuè
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Stroke order of 月
月
- yuè moon; month
- 4 strokes
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Meaning of 月
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yuè
- moon
- month
- monthly
- CL:個|个[ge4],輪|轮[lun2]
Radical and structure
- 月
- Radical 月 (Kangxi radical 74) · 4 strokes
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Words with 月
- 月光 yuè guāng moonlight
- 八月 Bā yuè August; eighth month (of the lunar year)
- 七月 Qī yuè July; seventh month (of the lunar year)
- 月亮 yuè liang the moon
- 腊月 Là yuè twelfth lunar month
- 大月氏 Dà Yuè zhī the Greater Yuezhi, a branch of the Yuezhi 月氏[Yue4 zhi1] people of central Asia during the Han dynasty
- 月饼 yuè bǐng mooncake (esp. for the Mid-Autumn Festival)
月 in our stories
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一个月以后，她能跑半个小时了。
yí gè yuè yǐhòu tā néng pǎo bàn gè xiǎoshí le
A month later she could run for half an hour.
From the story A little more every day HSK 2
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很多年以前，一个村子两个月没有下雨。
hěn duō nián yǐqián yí gè cūnzi liǎng gè yuè méiyǒu xiàyǔ
Many years ago a village had no rain for two months.
From the story The little dragon and the rain HSK 2
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后来，她找到了一个房间：又干净又亮，一个月只要两千块。
hòulái tā zhǎodào le yí gè fángjiān yòu gānjìng yòu liàng yí gè yuè zhǐ yào liǎngqiān kuài
Then she finds a room that is clean and bright, and only two thousand yuan a month.
From the story The cheap room HSK 3
Stories using 月
- A little more every day HSK 2
- The little dragon and the rain HSK 2
- The cheap room HSK 3
- That last piece HSK 3
- Pull-ups HSK 4
- No chilli, please HSK 4
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).