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月

month, moon

4strokes1school year in Japan
on reading
ゲツガツ

Came from Chinese. It usually shows up when the kanji is joined to another, forming a compound word.

kun reading
つき

It is Japanese. It usually shows up when the kanji stands alone or is followed by hiragana.

Stroke order

The order matters: it is what makes handwriting come out legible, and it is how dictionaries index the character.

Elements you can see in it

Visual decomposition, for recognising and comparing — not always the character's origin.

In the episode words

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月曜日げつようびgetsuyoubiMondayep9

月曜日の朝、ルーカスはいつも通り仕事に来ました。

Getsuyoubi no asa, Rūkasu wa itsumo doori shigoto ni kimashita.

It was Monday morning, and Lucas got to work like always.

ヶ月ヶかげつゖkagetsumonthsep1

ブラジル出身で、日本に住んで六ヶ月です。

Burajiru shusshin de, Nihon ni sunde roku kagetsu desu.

Originally from Brazil, he's been living in Japan for six months.

月がつgatsumonth (counter)ep11

数日後、日本は9月に珍しい連休に入るところでした。

Suujitsu go, Nihon wa kugatsu ni mezurashii renkyuu ni hairu tokoro deshita.

In a few days, Japan would enter one of its rare stretches of holidays in September.

先月せんげつsengetsulast monthep12

何を買うかはもう決めてたんだ——先月見た、フードに毛皮がついた黒いやつ。

Nani wo kau ka wa mou kimeteta nda -- sengetsu mita, fuudo ni kegawa ga tsuita kuroi yatsu.

I knew exactly what I was going to get: that black one with the fur-lined hood I saw last month.

六月ろくがつrokugatsuJuneep12

いいね。忘れないで、衣替えは来年の六月にまた来るから。

Ii ne. Wasurenaide, koromogae wa rainen no rokugatsu ni mata kuru kara.

Good idea. Don't forget: koromogae comes around again next year, in June.

十月じゅうがつjuugatsuOctoberep12 ep13 ep14

十月の初め——「衣替え」の季節です。日本が夏服から冬服に切り替える時期のことです。

Juugatsu no hajime -- "koromogae" no kisetsu desu. Nihon ga natsufuku kara fuyufuku ni kirikaeru jiki no koto desu.

Early October -- the season of "koromogae," when Japan swaps summer clothes for winter ones.

Readings and meanings: KANJIDIC2 · Decomposition: KRADFILE · Both from Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data from 2026-10-22 · Strokes: KanjiVG, Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0