正月
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[edit] Japanese
| Kanji in this term | |
| 正 | 月 |
[edit] Etymology
[edit] Noun
正月 (hiragana しょうがつ, romaji shōgatsu)
[edit] Synonyms
- 元旦 (がんたん, gantan): New Year's Day
- 元日 (がんじつ, ganjitsu): New Year's Day
[edit] Mandarin
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| 正月 | |||
[edit] Etymology
Note: Any month in the Chinese calendar may be preceded or followed by an intercalary month, an irregular month inserted into the calendar to bring the lunar year in line with the solar year.
[edit] Pronunciation
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[edit] Noun
正月 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin zhēngyuè)
- (literary) traditional name for the first of the twelve months of the Chinese calendar, each beginning on a new moon.
[edit] Synonyms
Categories:
- Japanese terms written with two Han script characters
- Japanese terms spelled with 正
- Japanese terms spelled with 月
- Japanese nouns
- ja:Holidays
- Mandarin nouns in simplified script
- Mandarin nouns in traditional script
- Mandarin nouns
- Chinese hanzi
- Traditional Chinese literary terms
- cmn:Chinese months
- Simplified Chinese literary terms
