水無月

みなづき

Also written みなつき

Meanings

1. Adverb, Noun sixth month of the lunar calendar (approx. July)
2. June; sixth month of Gregorian calendar
3. Noun triangles of sweet rice jelly topped with adzuki beans (eaten in the sixth month)

Kanji

• 水 water
• 無 without
• 月 moon. Read as つき.

Words containing 水無月

• 水無月祓 (みなづきばらえ) summer purification rites (held at shrines on the last day of the 6th lunar month)

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