Radical 月

4 strokes

We would normally class this as a DIY pronunciation (one you have to memorize on your own as there is no reasonable soundword available in english). For most of these, it will be simplest if you just learn the pronunciation, rather than us inventing a new trick each time. But we’ll try to give you some help when we can.

We saw that the character for “sun” also means “day” (Character 6), and in a similar way the character for “moon” also means “month”.

Occasionally 月 is distorted into (but we won’t see this happening until much later, in Chapter 16).

[二月 (2) èryuè February]

[三月 (3) sānyuè March]

[三个月 (3, 19) sān ge yuè three months]

/ You are out walking at night when the moon light falling on a wheel lights up the dwarf who is sitting on it. “That you, eh?” he whispers gruffly.