VocabularyJLPT N5 · core

月

つき

hepburn tsuki

moon, month

Part of speech · noun

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月moon

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Examples

今夜は月がきれいです。
The moon is beautiful tonight.
一月は寒いです。
January is cold.

Collocations

月がきれい (moon is beautiful — famous love confession)一月·二月·三月 (months)月曜日 (getsuyoubi, Monday)満月 (mangetsu, full moon)今月 (kongetsu, this month — batch 8)

Mnemonic

月 tsuki — TWO meanings: ① moon (celestial) ② month (time unit). Onyomi げつ (getsu) / がつ (gatsu): 月曜日 getsuyoubi (Monday), 一月 ichigatsu (January). The kanji depicts a crescent moon. Literary idiom 月がきれいですね attributed to Sōseki = a Japanese-style "I love you" — confessing love by saying "the moon is beautiful".

Quick check

What is the implied meaning of Sōseki's 月がきれいですね?