Keyword
moon
Info
FrequencyTop 200-300
Type
Kyōiku (1st grade) 
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KankenLevel 10
Heisig13
Readings
げつ
(35%)
がつ
(26%)
つき
(26%)
づき
(4%)
げっ
(3%)
ずき
(1%)
Mnemonic

A pictograph of a moon, whose full cycle takes approximately a month.

In the ancient times this character looked more like a crescent moon, but over time it morphed into being drawn like this.

Used in kanji (146 in total)
bright
sort of thing
ability
win
Used in vocabulary (607 in total)
moon; month
months (period of)
Monday
Examples (200 in total)
When are you coming to the moon? We need you.
When are you going to the moon? We need you.
That was the first time that a man walked on the moon.
How does the moon shine at night?
The moon is already out.
I'm going to fly to the moon.
I would give you the moon if I could.
She writes to me once a month.
The moon is low in the sky.
There are no people on the moon.
They say there's water on the Moon. Could that be true?
There is no air on the moon.
Some people have even visited the moon.
Imagine yourself to be on the moon.
The moon is already up.
The moon shines at night.
When I see the moon, I'm reminded of my mom.
My brother wants to go to the moon some day.
I tried to imagine life on the moon.
I never fail to write to my mother once a month.
I want to go to the moon.
The moon is in the sky.
I have my hair cut once a month.
It is no longer a dream for man to live on the moon.
The moon is shining brightly.
The moonlight shone brightly.
The moon is bright.
I think it's possible for people to live on the moon.
Man first visited the moon in 1969.
The moon doesn't shine on its own.
He never fails write to his parents once a month.
Why is the moon so big tonight?
What a fine moon we have tonight!
The moon is shining brightly tonight.
The moon is low in the sky tonight.
The earth is much larger than the moon.
The moon is distant from the earth.
The sun is much larger than the moon.
The sun is farther from the earth than the moon.
The sun is brighter than the moon.
The moon does not shine as brightly as the sun.
The moon is very beautiful this evening.
The moon is beautiful.
The moon has set.
The moon emerged from behind the clouds.
The moon came out from behind the clouds.
The moon is beautiful in fall.
I only eat meat about three or four times a month.
The sun, moon, and stars are all part of the universe.
The moon is lighting the room.
There is no grass on the moon.
The moon and stars were shining above us.
My watch gains thirty seconds a month.
There is no life on the moon.
The moon emerged from behind the cloud.
He earns 300,000 yen a month.
The sun shines in the daytime and the moon at night.
The moon was bright last night.
I make a point of writing to my mother once a month.
Can you compute the distance of the moon from the earth?
The moon rises in the east.
Seen from the moon, the earth looks like a ball.
Mother comes to stay with us at least once a month.
My mother comes to stay with us at least once a month.
The sun gives light by day, and the moon by night.
It will not be long before man can travel to the moon.
I hope the day will soon come when we can travel to the moon.
A trip to the Moon is no longer a dream.
The day will come when we can travel to the moon.
I want to travel to the moon.
The earth is about six times as large as the moon.
He stood on the surface of the moon.
Can you imagine walking on the moon?
The moon goes round the earth once a month.
We meet here once a month.
How many times a month do you write letters?
If we had wings, could we fly to the moon?
He never fails to write to his parents once a month.
She rents the room to a student for seventy thousand yen a month.
That desert looks like the surface of the moon.
The sun and the moon rise in the east and set in the west.
The moon rose above the hill.
The moon has risen.
I go to the movies three or four times a month.
How many times a month do you go to the movies?
It hasn't rained for more than two months.
We've been waiting over two months.
He killed himself three months ago.
Six months have passed since the author was killed in an accident.
About 6 months later, a letter came from her.
I've been here three months, and so far I've enjoyed it.
There hasn't been any rain for the past three months.
This dog was born two months ago.
The bridge must be built in six months.
It's been three months since I met her.
Two months have passed since he left for France.
It has been three months since he left Japan.
It took him three months to learn to ride a bicycle.
He makes a point of writing to his parents once every two months.
They have only been married two months.
They got married six months ago.
They fly about 35,000 km in eight months.
It took her four months to recover from her sickness.
It has been two months since my arrival in Tokyo.
I've been working there for three months.
I meet with him once every six months.
I've spent two months in Japan before.
I have not seen him for about three months.
It hasn't rained for two months.
It will be three months before our new school building is completed.
After three months, he got used to the life in the town.
Six months is a long time to wait.
After a six month period, his leg was healed and is normal again.
Six months later we were married.
The moon was shining brightly.
My father has been in the hospital for two months.
The light from the moon is weak.
The moonlight reflected on the lake.
We stayed there for three months.
The factory turns out eight hundred motorcycles a month.
There is no atmosphere on the moon.
This window has been broken for a month.
A month is too little time.
We've only been dating for a month.
She's been wearing the same hat for a month.
She has worn the same hat for a month.
I write to my mother once a month.
I'm having a wedding in a month.
I had been in the army for a month when the war ended.
The moon was reflected in the lake.
Philosophy is not a thing one can learn in six months.
The moon cast a gentle light.
We should read at least one book a month.
The moon is behind the clouds.
The moon is invisible behind the clouds.
They soon arrived at the station on the moon.
Not a drop of rain fell for a month, so they had to dig a well.
It will become much warmer in March.
We can't see the other side of the moon.
I'll be staying here for three months.
I'm going to stay here for a couple of months.
I'm four months pregnant.
I had a girlfriend, but we broke up three months ago.
I broke up with my girlfriend three months ago.
She is eight months pregnant.
It took her more than three months to read through the magazine.
She said that she had met him three months before.
I have been in Japan for two months.
I meet him once every six months.
There are twelve months in a year.
I spent three months in hospital when I was thirteen.
I lost ten kilos in three months.
Everybody knows the moon is made of cheese.
Just imagine traveling to the moon.
He reads at least ten books a month.
It's snowing in April.
By next April you will have studied English for ten years.
I will be in high school next April.
The committee meets twice a month.
He stayed in London over a month.
He goes to London once a month.
He goes to China in May.
He left for Europe a week ago, that is, on the tenth of May.
His birthday is May 5th.
The red flowers will bloom in January.
The first month of the year is January.
I met him in January.
They were born one month apart in 1970.
The president was visiting France that month.
How many days are in a month?
He went to Paris at the end of May.
She looked after my dog for a month.
After an absence of ten months, he returned home.
He earns more than five hundred dollars a month in that job.
He earns over 500 dollars a month at that job.
On an average, I go to the movies twice a month.
I spent three months compiling this data.
Here it's August and our summer vacation is nearly over.
I'm going to Japan with my girlfriend in August.
A voyage to the moon in a spaceship is no longer a dream.
The space ship will get to the moon soon.
He has been working on a new book for two months.
There's no oxygen on the moon.
You can't camp on the moon.
Without air there can be no wind or sound on the moon.
April is the fourth month of the year.
The fourth month is called April.
Tell me the name of the ninth month.
This river is dangerous to swim in July.
Many years have been spent in building the tower.
The years pass by quickly.
It would be fun to see how things change over the years.
Many years went by.
Ten years is a short time when we look back at it.
Ten years is a long time.
Twenty years is a long time.
In February it snows at least every three days.
We have a lot of snow in February.
At the New Year, we spend a lot of time with our family.
It was a September morning.