HSK 1 · Time

月 yuè “month” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 月 means

  1. month, moon
  2. monthly

Measure word 个 gè or 轮 lún · 一个月 yí ge yuè

How to say 月

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale月yuè4th tone, falling

月 in a sentence

  1. 他下月会很忙。

    Tā xià yuè huì hěn máng.

    He will be busy next month.

    Sentence #345857 from Tatoeba

  2. 我下月可能去澳洲。

    Wǒ xià yuè kěnéng qù Àozhōu.

    I may go to Australia next month.

    Sentence #9400968 from Tatoeba

  3. 一年有十二个月。

    Yì nián yǒu shí'èr ge yuè.

    A year has twelve months.

    Sentence #333474 from Tatoeba

  4. 今天是几月几号？

    Jīntiān shì jǐ yuè jǐ hào?

    What is the date today?

    Sentence #332135 from Tatoeba

How 月 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.

How to write 月

月 4 strokes

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

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

Words related to 月

Words with 月

月亮yuèliang · the moon岁月suìyuè · years正月zhēngyuè · first month of the lunar year日新月异rìxīnyuèyì · changing rapidly

More words: Time

年nián · year上午shàngwǔ · morning (forenoon)时候shíhou · time下午xiàwǔ · afternoon星期xīngqī · week今天jīntiān · today明天míngtiān · tomorrow中午zhōngwǔ · noon

FAQs

月 (yuè) means “month, moon” or “monthly”. It is an HSK 1 word, so it is one of the words learners meet early.
Say it yuè: yuè with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 月 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Use 个 (gè) or 轮 (lún). For example, one month is 一个月 (yí ge yuè).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type yue with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 月 from the suggestions. Typing yue into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
月 is an HSK 1 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.