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月
月 is a Japanese kanji written with 4 strokes, listed here under the keyword “month”. It is treated as a basic building block: it is not broken down any further here. In Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig it is frame 13. It appears as a component in 86 other characters in this index.
- Keyword
- month
- RTK frame
- 13
- Strokes
- 4
- On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading)
- ゲツ, ガツ
- Kun'yomi (native Japanese reading)
- つき
- Script
- Japanese kanji
- Also known as
- moon, flesh, part of the body, edam, месяц
- Same glyph as a Chinese hanzi
- 月 moon
Decomposition
No decomposition is listed: this shape is used whole.
Characters that contain 月
- 朋 companion
- 明 bright
- 胃 stomach
- 胆 gall bladder
- 肘 elbow
- 朝 morning
- 肌 texture
- 有 possess
- 肖 resemblance
- 腺 gland
- 胴 trunk
- 膜 membrane
- 脊 spinal column
- 前 in front
- 肯 agreement
- 肺 lungs
- 背 stature
- 脂 fat
- 腹 abdomen
- 望 ambition
- 肪 obese
- 脱 undress
- 胞 placenta
- 豚 pork
- 腸 intestines
- 臆 cowardice
- 惰 lazy
- 股 thigh
- 肢 limb
- 胎 womb
- 育 bring up
- 臓 entrails
- 腎 kidney
- 脇 armpit
- 脅 threaten
- 膝 knee
- 膳 dining tray
- 肩 shoulder
- 祭 ritual
- 用 utilize
…and 46 more. See them all in the interactive search.
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