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yuè — moon; month

4 strokes · radical 月 · HSK 1

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Where it comes from

A crescent, not a full moon — the moon is drawn at the shape you can tell apart from the sun. It doubles as the word for month, because a month is one cycle of it.

Words it turns up in

月亮一月

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