月
month; moon
4 strokes. Taught in grade 1. Newspaper frequency rank 23.
Readings
- ガツ (on reading): 月 (がつ) month (of the year); 正月 (しょうがつ) New Year (esp. first three days)
- ゲツ (on reading): ヶ月 (かげつ) counter for months; 月曜日 (げつようび) Monday
- つき (kun reading): 月 (つき) Moon; 毎月 (まいつき) every month
- Read as a whole word: 如月 (きさらぎ) second month of the lunar calendar; 五月雨 (さみだれ) early-summer rain; 月代 (さかやき) top part of the head that is shaved from the forehead to the crown (on chonmage hair styling)
Components
- 月 radical moon; flesh
Kanji containing 月
- 前 in front
- 明 bright
- 期 period
- 勝 victory
- 朝 morning
- 有 possess
- 育 bring up
- 然 sort of thing
- 脳 brain
- 青 blue
- 背 stature
- 散 scatter
- 脱 undress
- 服 clothing
- 骨 skeleton
- 臓 entrails
- 肝 liver
- 祭 ritual
- 胸 bosom
- 腕 arm
- 脅 threaten
- 肩 shoulder
- 脚 skids
- 腹 abdomen
- 膨 swell
- 腰 loins
- 朗 melodious
- 胞 placenta
- 肺 lungs
- 騰 leaping up
- 胆 gall bladder
- 肥 fertilizer
- 脈 vein
- 脂 fat
- 肌 texture
- 胃 stomach
- 龍 dragon
- 腎 kidney
- 膜 membrane
- 脇 armpit
- 腸 intestines
- 肯 agreement
- 胎 womb
- 豚 pork
- 肪 obese
- 肖 resemblance
- 胴 trunk
- 胡 barbarian
- 朋 companion
- 膳 small low table
- 腫 tumor
- 股 thigh
- 脩 dried meat
- 肢 limb
- 脊 stature
- 朔 conjunction (astronomy)
- 膝 knee
- 惰 lazy
- 膠 glue
- 胚 embryo
And 90 more.
Words using 月
- 月 (がつ) month (of the year)
- 正月 (しょうがつ) New Year (esp. first three days)
- 何月 (なんがつ) what month
- 五月病 (ごがつびょう) blues experienced by college freshmen or workplace recruits shortly after beginning school or work
- 生年月日 (せいねんがっぴ) birth date
- ヶ月 (かげつ) counter for months
- 月曜日 (げつようび) Monday
- 今月 (こんげつ) this month
- 月曜 (げつよう) Monday
- 来月 (らいげつ) next month
- 月 (つき) Moon
- 毎月 (まいつき) every month
- 年月 (としつき) months and years
- 半月 (はんつき) half-moon
- 三日月 (みかづき) crescent moon
- 如月 (きさらぎ) second month of the lunar calendar
- 五月雨 (さみだれ) early-summer rain
- 月代 (さかやき) top part of the head that is shaved from the forehead to the crown (on chonmage hair styling)
- 五月雨式 (さみだれしき) off and on manner
- 五月雨雲 (さみだれぐも) cloud during rainy season
- 月夜見 (つくよみ) moon
- 月夜見の尊 (つくよみのみこと) Tsukuyomi no Mikoto (god of the Moon and brother of Amaterasu)
- 海底撈月 (ハイテイラオユエ) haitei winning hand
509 words in all.