HSK 3 · Nature

月亮 yuèliang “the moon” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 月亮 means

  1. the moon

How to say 月亮

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale月yuè4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own亮liangneutral tone, light and short

Grey pinyin is a neutral tone: say it short and light. More on the neutral tone

月亮 in a sentence

  1. 今晚月亮很圆。

    Jīnwǎn yuèliang hěn yuán.

    There’s a full moon tonight.

    Sentence #9918416 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 月亮不会自己发光。

    Yuèliang bú huì zìjǐ fāguāng.

    The moon doesn’t give off its own light.

    Sentence #1899467 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 他们喜欢美丽的星星和月亮。

    Tāmen xǐhuan měilì de xīngxing hé yuèliang.

    They like the beautiful stars and moon.

    Sentence #2200470 from Tatoeba

How 月亮 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 月 (yuè) with each of its parts in a different colour
月yuèmoon
  • 冂down box · jiōng
  • 二two · èr

Memory aidDrawn from a crescent moon.

The character 亮 (liàng) with each of its parts in a different colour
亮liàngbright; lightlight in 月亮
  • 亠lid · tóu
  • 口mouth · kǒu
  • 冖cover · mì
  • 几table · jī

How to write 月亮

月 4 strokes · 亮 9 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

月亮 (yuèliang) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 月亮 (yuèliang). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 月亮

Words with 月

月yuè · month岁月suìyuè · years正月zhēngyuè · first month of the lunar year日新月异rìxīnyuèyì · changing rapidly

Words with 亮

漂亮piàoliang · beautiful亮liàng · bright响亮xiǎngliàng · loud and clear

More words: Nature, Animals & Weather

鸟niǎo · bird树shù · tree太阳tàiyáng · the sun熊猫xióngmāo · panda山shān · mountain牛niú · cow风fēng · wind冰bīng · ice

In the Chinese zodiac

兔tù · Year of the Rabbit

In Chinese legend, the Jade Rabbit lives on the moon.

FAQs

月亮 (yuèliang) means “the moon”. It is an HSK 3 word.
Say it yuèliang: yuè with a 4th tone, then liang with a neutral tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 月亮 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type yueliang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 月亮 from the suggestions. Typing yueliang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
月亮 is an HSK 3 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.