しょうがつ – Vocabulary details

しょうがつ

Noun

1. New Year (esp. first three days)

2. first month of the year; January

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New Year (esp. first three days); first month of the year; January

first seven days of the year

twentieth day of the first month (end of New Year celebrations, upon which remaining New Year's food is eaten, decorations are stowed away, etc.)

しょうがつは家か族ぞくと過すごす時じ間かんが長ながいのです。

At the New Year, we spend a lot of time with our family.

中ちゅう国ごくでは、旧きゅう暦れきにしたがってしょうがつを祝いわう。

In China, they celebrate New Year by the lunar calendar.

しょうがつの伝でん統とう的てきな行ぎょう事じが嫌きらいな人ひともいる。

Some people dislike the traditional New Year's ritual.

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