月亮 (yuè liang): meaning and stroke order

月亮 in our stories

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• 嫦娥没有办法，只好自己把药吃了，慢慢地飞上了月亮。

  Cháng'é méiyǒu bànfǎ zhǐhǎo zìjǐ bǎ yào chī le mànmàn de fēi shàng le yuèliang

  With no other way out, Chang'e swallowed it herself and slowly floated up to the moon.

  From the story Chang'e flies to the moon HSK 3

• 他的左眼变成了太阳，右眼变成了月亮，四肢化作了高山，血液流成了江河。

  tā de zuǒ yǎn biànchéng le tàiyáng yòu yǎn biànchéng le yuèliang sìzhī huàzuò le gāoshān xuèyè liú chéng le jiānghé

  His left eye became the sun, his right eye the moon; his limbs turned into mountains and his blood flowed into rivers.

  From the story Pangu separates heaven and earth HSK 7–9 · Level 7

• 可是天空始终没有完全恢复原样：直到今天，太阳和月亮还是向西落下，中国的大河也大多向东流入大海。

  kěshì tiānkōng shǐzhōng méiyǒu wánquán huīfù yuányàng zhídào jīntiān tàiyáng hé yuèliang háishi xiàng xī luò xià Zhōngguó de dà hé yě dàduō xiàng dōng liú rù dàhǎi

  But the sky never fully returned to its old shape: to this day the sun and moon set in the west, and most of China's great rivers flow east into the sea.

  From the story Nüwa mends the sky HSK 7–9 · Level 7