Character Details
| moon | Ascii: 21491 | w335 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 月 | yuè | yoo:eh | 4 | 月 (moon) → moon; month | 月 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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A month is longer than a day. The extended strokes for the right and left sides extend further. | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 1] - In modern Chinese, 月 often means “flesh.” - body parts, time Examples: 胖, 脑, 肯. The building block for moon originally derived from a pictogram of the crescent moon. It has now evolved to be a visual counterpart to 'sun'. This character also means 'month'. | |||||||||||
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| - We met in September 2011 | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 74 - 日 | rì | moon | sun | square sun | 日 明 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 月 (moon) → moon; month | 月 (semantic) | — | pure semantic | ||||||||