月色

Chinese

		moon; month	colour; dice; look colour; dice; look; appearance
simp. and trad. (月色)		月	色

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yuèsè

  (Zhuyin): ㄩㄝˋ ㄙㄜˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyut⁶ sik¹
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): ge̍h-sek / ge̍rh-siak / goe̍h-sek

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ghuêh⁸ sêg⁴

• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁸yuq-seq; ⁸yoq-seq; ⁸gniuq-seq; ⁸gnioq-seq

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yuèsè
    • Zhuyin: ㄩㄝˋ ㄙㄜˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yuèsè
    • Wade–Giles: yüeh⁴-sê⁴
    • Yale: ywè-sè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yuehseh
    • Palladius: юэсэ (juesɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɥɛ⁵¹⁻⁵³ sɤ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jyut⁶ sik¹
    • Yale: yuht sīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jyt⁹ sik⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: yud⁶ xig¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyːt̚² sɪk̚⁵/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 月息 月色

• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Taipei)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ge̍h-sek
    • Tâi-lô: ge̍h-sik
    • Phofsit Daibuun: geqseg
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ɡe(ʔ)⁴⁻²¹ siɪk̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ɡe(ʔ)⁴⁻¹¹ siɪk̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ge̍rh-siak
    • Tâi-lô: ge̍rh-siak
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ɡə(ʔ)²⁴⁻² siak̚⁵/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: goe̍h-sek
    • Tâi-lô: gue̍h-sik
    • Phofsit Daibuun: goeqseg
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɡue(ʔ)⁴⁻²¹ siɪk̚³²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɡue(ʔ)¹²¹⁻²¹ siɪk̚³²/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ghuêh⁸ sêg⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: gue̍h sek
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɡueʔ⁴⁻² sek̚²/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁸yuq-seq; ⁸yoq-seq; ⁸gniuq-seq; ⁸gnioq-seq
    • MiniDict: yuih^入 seh; yoh^入 seh; nyuih^入 seh; nyoh^入 seh
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁵hhyq-seq; ⁵hhioq-seq; ⁵nyyq-seq; ⁵nyioq-seq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɦyɪʔ¹¹ səʔ²³/, /ɦioʔ¹¹ səʔ²³/, /n̠ʲyɪʔ¹¹ səʔ²³/, /n̠ʲioʔ¹¹ səʔ²³/

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• Middle Chinese: ngjwot srik

Rime
Character	月	色
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	疑 (31)	生 (21)
Final (韻)	月 (68)	職 (134)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	魚厥切	所力切
Baxter	ngjwot	srik
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ŋʉɐt̚/	/ʃɨk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ŋʷiɐt̚/	/ʃɨk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ŋiuɐt̚/	/ʃiek̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ŋuat̚/	/ʂik̚/
Li Rong	/ŋiuɐt̚/	/ʃiək̚/
Wang Li	/ŋĭwɐt̚/	/ʃĭək̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ŋi̯wɐt̚/	/ʂi̯ək̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yuè	she
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jyut6	sik1

Noun

月色

1. moonlight

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 月光 (“moonlight”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		月色, 玄暉, 月明, 蟾光
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		月光, 月色
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	月光
	Singapore	月光
Cantonese	Guangzhou	月光
	Hong Kong	月光
Gan	Pingxiang	月光
Southern Min	Xiamen	月光, 月色
	Quanzhou	月光, 月色
	Zhangzhou	月光, 月色
	Tainan	月色
Wu	Shanghai	月亮光, 月光
	Ningbo	月光
Xiang	Loudi	月光

Japanese

Kanji in this term
月	色
げつ > げっ Grade: 1	しょく Grade: 2
kan’on

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) げっしょく [gèsshókú] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ɡe̞ɕːo̞kɯ̟ᵝ]

Noun

月(げっ)色(しょく) • (gesshoku) 

1. moonlight

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:月光

References

• Shinmura, Izuru, editor (1998), 広辞苑 [Kōjien] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN