新月

新月

Chinese

		new; newly; meso- (chem.)	moon; month
simp. and trad. (新月)		新	月

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xīnyuè

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄣ ㄩㄝˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): san¹ jyut⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: xīnyuè
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄣ ㄩㄝˋ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shinyueh
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕin⁵⁵ y̯œ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: san¹ jyut⁶
    • Yale: sān yuht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: san¹ jyt⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: sen¹ yud⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /sɐn⁵⁵ jyːt̚²/

Noun

新月

1. new moon
2. the first crescent moon

Derived terms

新月沃土 (Xīnyuè Wòtǔ)

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
新	月
しん Grade: 2	げつ Grade: 1
on’yomi

Noun

新月 (hiragana しんげつ, rōmaji shingetsu)

1. new moon
2. the first crescent moon

Synonyms

• (crescent moon): 三日月 (みかづき) (mikazuki)

References

• 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.