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Character · Nature

月

つき tsukiさみだれ samidareめいげつ meigetsuさいげつ saigetsu

moon, month

Composition

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Origin

Pictogram of the crescent moon, marked with an inner stroke.

In the thoughts

  1. 歳月saigetsuthe years
  2. 月日tsukihidays and months
  3. 風月fūgetsuwind and moon
  4. 月歩geppomonthly step
  5. 五月雨samidareearly-summer rains
  6. 名月meigetsuharvest moon

Proverbs carrying this character

  1. 067 The years wait for no one.
  2. 101 Over the moon, gathering clouds; over blossoms, wind.
  3. 108 The days and months are travelers of a hundred generations.
  4. 111 Should we look at blossoms only in full bloom, at the moon only when it is clear?
  5. 136 Flowers, birds, wind, moon.
  6. 157 Advance daily, progress monthly.
  7. 162 Gathering the rains of June, how swiftly flows the Mogami.
  8. 166 "Catch me the moon!" cries the child.
  9. 168 Field of rapeseed — the moon in the east, the sun in the west.
  10. 211 Harvest moon — all night long I paced around the pond.
  11. 218 How many cloud peaks have crumbled away — and here, the mountain under the moon.
  12. 225 June rains — facing the swollen river, two houses.
  13. 257 The moon and the pond turtle.
  14. 281 Snow, moon, flowers.

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