つきよみ

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Japanese

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For pronunciation and definitions of つきよみ – see the following entry.
月読
[noun] a moon god
[noun] (poetic) the Moon
[proper noun] (Japanese mythology) Short for 月読尊 (Tsukiyomi no mikoto): Tsukuyomi, the moon god in Shinto mythology
Alternative spellings
月読み, 月夜見, ツキヨミ
(This term, つきよみ (tsukiyomi), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)