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  *日* | 日* | *日
sun / day / date, day of the month
HSK 1
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  *月* | 月* | *月
moon / month / monthly / CL: 個|个, 輪|轮
HSK 1
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  *号* | 号* | *号
ordinal number / day of a month / mark / sign / business establishment / size / ship suffix / horn (wind instrument) / bugle call / assumed name / to take a pulse / classifier used to indicate number of people
HSK 1
month
HSK 2
period of time (may be months, or mere seconds) / spare time / skill / labor / effort
HSK 3
end of the month
HSK 4
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  *底* | 底* | *底
bottom; base / background; foundation / copy (of a manuscript or receipt etc) kept as a record / (suffix) end of a year or month / (math.) radix; base (abbr. for 底數|底数)
HSK 4
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  *季* | 季* | *季
season / the last month of a season / fourth or youngest amongst brothers / classifier for seasonal crop yields
HSK 4
last month
HSK 4
next month
HSK 4
the Mid-Autumn Festival on 15th of 8th lunar month
HSK 5
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  *丑* | 丑* | *丑
clown / 2nd earthly branch: 1-3 a.m., 12th solar month (6th January to 3rd February), year of the Ox / ancient Chinese compass point: 30°
HSK 5
Dragon Boat Festival (5th day of the 5th lunar month)
HSK 6
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  *未* | 未* | *未
not yet / did not / have not / not / 8th earthly branch: 1-3 p.m., 6th solar month (7th July-6th August), year of the Sheep / ancient Chinese compass point: 210°
HSK 7-9
start of month / early in the month
HSK 7-9
middle third of a month
HSK 7-9
next period (week, month or quarter etc)
HSK 7-9
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  *望* | 望* | *望
15th day of month (lunar calendar) / old variant of
HSK 7-9
twelfth lunar month
HSK 7-9
last third of the month
HSK 7-9
first third of a month
HSK 7-9
Lantern Festival, the final event of the Spring Festival 春節|春节, on 15th of first month of the lunar calendar
HSK 7-9
previous period (week, month or quarter etc)
HSK 7-9
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  *朔* | 朔* | *朔
beginning / first day of lunar month / north
the three spring months
on that month
the same month
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  *子* | 子* | *子
son / child / seed / egg / small thing / 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat / viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 / ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north) / subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-
red-dyed egg, traditionally given to friends and relatives one month after the birth of one's child
Double Ninth or Yang Festival / 9th day of 9th lunar month
May / fifth month (of the lunar year)
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  *正* | 正* | *正
first month of the lunar year
July / seventh month (of the lunar year)
April / fourth month (of the lunar year)
intercalary month in the lunar calendar / leap month
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  *申* | 申* | *申
to extend / to state / to explain / 9th earthly branch: 3-5 p.m., 7th solar month (7th August-7th September), year of the Monkey / ancient Chinese compass point: 240°
Dragon Boat Festival (5th day of 5th lunar month)
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  *辰* | 辰* | *辰
5th earthly branch: 7-9 a.m., 3rd solar month (5th April-4th May), year of the Dragon / ancient Chinese compass point: 120°
2nd year in junior middle school / 2nd day of a lunar month / 2nd day of lunar New Year
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  *仲* | 仲* | *仲
second month of a season / middle / intermediate / second amongst brothers
the Mid-autumn festival, the traditional moon-viewing festival on the 15th of the 8th lunar month
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  *亥* | 亥* | *亥
12th earthly branch: 9-11 p.m., 10th solar month (7th November-6th December), year of the Boar / ancient Chinese compass point: 330°
October / tenth month (of the lunar year)
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  *孟* | 孟* | *孟
first month of a season / eldest amongst brothers
each month
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  *戌* | 戌* | *戌
11th earthly branch: 7-9 p.m., 9th solar month (8th October-6th November), year of the Dog / ancient Chinese compass point: 300°
(coll.) the night before lunisolar New Year's Eve / (Tw) the night before New Year's Eve (either lunisolar or Gregorian) / (old) Little New Year's Eve (the 23rd or 24th of the 12th lunisolar month, when people offer sacrifices to the kitchen god)
last month
January / first month (of the lunar year)
June / sixth month (of the lunar year)
first day of the lunar month
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  *酉* | 酉* | *酉
10th earthly branch: 5-7 p.m., 8th solar month (8th September-7th October), year of the Rooster / ancient Chinese compass point: 270° (west)
first day of lunar month / New Year's Day / first year in junior middle school
10th month of the lunar calendar / Indian summer / crops sown in late autumn
March / third month (of the lunar year)
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  *午* | 午* | *午
7th earthly branch: 11 a.m.-1 p.m., noon, 5th solar month (6th June-6th July), year of the Horse / ancient Chinese compass point: 180° (south)
leap year / (lunar calendar) year with a thirteen intercalary month
2nd day of the month
February / second month (of the lunar year)
Ghost Festival on 15th day of 7th lunar month when offerings are made to the deceased
Ghost Festival on 15th day of 7th lunar month when offerings are made to the deceased
(of a baby) to reach one month of age / (fig.) to reach the one-month mark since the start, launch or implementation of sth / the full moon
September / ninth month (of the lunar year)
Lantern Festival / night of the 15th of the first lunar month / see also 元夜 / sticky rice dumplings
month-by-month / monthly / on a monthly basis
every month
(Islam) Eid al-Adha, the Festival of Sacrifice (Qurban), celebrated on the 10th day of Dhu al-Hijjah, the 12th month of the Islamic calendar
traditional one-month confinement period following childbirth; puerperium
midsummer / second month of summer
December / twelfth month (of the lunar year)
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  *腊* | 腊* | *腊
ancient practice of offering sacrifices to the gods in the 12th lunar month / the 12th lunar month / (bound form) (of meat, fish etc) cured in winter, esp. in the 12th lunar month
to rent by the month
first month of the lunar year
double seven festival, evening of seventh of lunar seventh month / girls' festival / Chinese Valentine's day, when Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女 are allowed their annual meeting
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  *浣* | 浣* | *浣
to wash / to rinse / any of three 10-day division of the month (during Tang dynasty) / Taiwan pr. [huan3] / also pr. [wan3]
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  *巳* | 巳* | *巳
6th earthly branch: 9-11 a.m., 4th solar month (5th May-5th June), year of the Snake / ancient Chinese compass point: 150°
November / eleventh month (of the lunar year)
drain / underground drainpipe / floor gutter / 25th of 2nd lunar month
solar month of 31 days / a lunar month of 30 days
end of month / late in the month
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  *闰* | 闰* | *闰
intercalary / an extra day or month inserted into the lunar or solar calendar (such as February 29)
woman hired to take care of a newborn child and its mother in the month after childbirth
banquet to celebrate a baby reaching one month of age
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  *寅* | 寅* | *寅
3rd earthly branch: 3-5 a.m., 1st solar month (4th February-5th March), year of the Tiger / ancient Chinese compass point: 60°
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  *朓* | 朓* | *朓
(literary) the appearance of the moon in the west at the end of a lunar month
second month of autumn / 8th month of the lunar calendar
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  *晦* | 晦* | *晦
(bound form) last day of a lunar month / (bound form) dark; gloomy / (literary) night
first day of the first lunar month / (old) calendar promulgated by the first emperor of a dynasty
the Double Ninth Festival (9th day of the 9th lunar month)
eleventh lunar month
this month / the current month
next month / after this month
lunar month of 30 days / same as 大盡|大尽
full moon / first full moon after birth (i.e. entering the second month)
the full moon / the fifteenth day of each lunar month
lit. eating away next year's food in advance / fig. to dip into the next month's check / live now, pay later
worker employed by the month
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  *卯* | 卯* | *卯
mortise (slot cut into wood to receive a tenon) / 4th earthly branch: 5–7 a.m., 2nd solar month (6th March–4th April), Year of the Rabbit / ancient Chinese compass point: 90° (east) / (coll.) to concentrate one's strength (variant of 鉚|铆)
end of the month
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  *羜* | 羜* | *羜
five-month-old lamb

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