VocabularyHSK 3 · core

一月

yīyuè

January

Part of speech · noun

Pattern visualization

一one

月moon

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Examples

一月很冷。
January is cold.
一月一号是元旦。
January 1st is New Year's Day.

Collocations

一月一号一月份到一月

Mnemonic

一月 yīyuè "January" — pattern is "numeral + 月". 月 yuè originally means "moon", extended to "month". Same compounding logic as Japanese 一月 (ichigatsu) and Korean ilwol.

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