Character Details
| moon | Ascii: 26376 | w335 | |||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Phonetics | Tone | Category | Alternative Sounds | ||
| 月 | yuè | yoo:eh | 4 | 2 | |||
| Frequency | Equation | Components | Wikitionary | Picture | |||
| 167 | N/A | N/A | 月 link |  | |||
| Story | Notes | ||||||
| A month is longer than a day. The extended strokes for the right and left sides extend further. | 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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| 1. We met in September 2011 | 2. --Research Pending-- | ||||||
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