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  *月* | 月* | *月
moon / month / monthly / CL: 個|个, 輪|轮
HSK 1
the moon
HSK 2
month
HSK 2
end of the month
HSK 4
last month
HSK 4
next month
HSK 4
years / time
HSK 5
the moon
HSK 5
mooncake (esp. for the Mid-Autumn Festival)
HSK 5
monthly ticket
HSK 7-9
start of month / early in the month
HSK 7-9
daily renewal, monthly change (idiom) / every day sees new developments / rapid progress
HSK 7-9
honeymoon
HSK 7-9
twelfth lunar month
HSK 7-9
on that month
the same month
September / ninth month (of the lunar year)
each month
intercalary month in the lunar calendar / leap month
May / fifth month (of the lunar year)
March / third month (of the lunar year)
moonlight
laurel (Laurus nobilis) / bay tree / bay leaf
months and year / time / days of one's life
bright moon / refers to 夜明珠, a legendary pearl that can glow in the dark / CL: 輪|轮
July / seventh month (of the lunar year)
April / fourth month (of the lunar year)
menstruation / a woman's period
the sun and moon / day and month / every day and every month / season / life and livelihood
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *氏* | 氏* | *氏
monthly income (in kind)
this month / the current month
monthly (used in names of publications) / monthly bulletin
calendar (esp. illustrated)
monthly / per mensem
every month
romance / beautiful scenery / small or petty (of talk etc)
lit. lovely flowers, round moon (idiom); fig. everything is wonderful / perfect happiness / conjugal bliss
last month
October / tenth month (of the lunar year)
moonlight
January / first month (of the lunar year)
June / sixth month (of the lunar year)
crescent moon
monthly
full moon
to go (up) to the moon
meniscus (anatomy)
February / second month (of the lunar year)
monthly magazine
wind, flower, snow and moon, trite poetry subject (idiom); effete language without substance / love affair / romance is in the air / dissipated life
lit. light breeze and clear moon (idiom) / period of peace and prosperity / noble and benevolent character
lunar eclipse / eclipse of the moon
full moon / whole month / baby's one-month old birthday
monthly payment
to make monthly payments / monthly payment
to fly to the moon
moon buggy
first month (of either lunar or Western calendars)
month-by-month / monthly / on a monthly basis
half-moon / fortnight
the bright moon
matchmaker / go-between / same as 月下老人
traditional one-month confinement period following childbirth; puerperium
the moon and the stars
moonlit night
waning moon
December / twelfth month (of the lunar year)
eventful years (idiom)
full-term (gestation)
typical weather in a given season
to rent by the month
railway platform
to admire the full moon
first month of the lunar year
lit. flowers in a mirror and the moon reflected in the lake (idiom) / fig. an unrealistic rosy view / viewing things through rose-tinted spectacles / also written 水月鏡花|水月镜花
phase of the moon
monthly calendar
November / eleventh month (of the lunar year)
Palace in the Moon (in folk tales)
lit. cool breeze and bright moon (idiom) / fig. peaceful and clear night / (allusively) living a solitary and quiet life
eleventh lunar month
moonlight
Chinese rose (Rosa chinensis)
solar month of 31 days / a lunar month of 30 days
to travel or work through night and day / to toil away for long hours
Ramadan (Islam)
end of month / late in the month
woman hired to take care of a newborn child and its mother in the month after childbirth
the sun and moon like a shuttle (idiom); How time flies!
yueqin, a lute with oval or octagonal sound box
ring around the moon / lunar halo
see 正月
to accumulate over a long period of time
lit. all the stars cup themselves around the moon (idiom, from Analects); fig. to view sb as core figure / to group around a revered leader / to revolve around sb
(idiom) to reach for the stars
lit. countenance of a flower, face like the moon (idiom) / fig. (of a woman) beautiful
lit. hiding the moon, shaming the flowers (idiom) / fig. female beauty exceeding even that of the natural world

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