孟月

Chinese

		first month; eldest brother; surname	moon; month
simp. and trad. (孟月)		孟	月

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mèngyuè

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄥˋ ㄩㄝˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): maang⁶ jyut⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mèngyuè
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄥˋ ㄩㄝˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mèngyuè
    • Wade–Giles: mêng⁴-yüeh⁴
    • Yale: mèng-ywè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: menqyueh
    • Palladius: мэнъюэ (mɛnʺjue)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɤŋ⁵¹⁻⁵³ ɥɛ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: maang⁶ jyut⁶
    • Yale: maahng yuht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: maang⁶ jyt⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: mang⁶ yud⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /maːŋ²² jyːt̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: maengH ngjwot

Rime
Character	孟	月
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)	疑 (31)
Final (韻)	庚 (109)	元 (68)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Closed
Division (等)	II	III
Fanqie	莫更切	魚厥切
Baxter	maengH	ngjwot
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mˠæŋH/	/ŋʉɐt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/mᵚaŋH/	/ŋʷiɐt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/maŋH/	/ŋiuɐt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/maɨjŋH/	/ŋuat̚/
Li Rong	/mɐŋH/	/ŋiuɐt̚/
Wang Li	/mɐŋH/	/ŋĭwɐt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/mɐŋH/	/ŋi̯wɐt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mèng	yuè
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mang6	jyut6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*mˤraŋ-s  [ŋ]ʷat/

  (Zhengzhang): /*mraːŋs  ŋod/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	孟	月
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	mèng	yuè
Middle Chinese	‹ mængH ›	‹ ngjwot ›
Old Chinese	/*mˁraŋ-s/	/*[ŋ]ʷat/
English	eldest, great	moon, month
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	孟	月
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	9152	16319
Phonetic component	皿	月
Rime group	陽	月
Rime subdivision	0	3
Corresponding MC rime	孟	月
Old Chinese	/*mraːŋs/	/*ŋod/

Noun

孟月

1. the first month of a season: the 1st, 4th, 7th, and 10th months in Chinese lunar calendar

Coordinate terms

• 仲月 (zhòngyuè)
• 季月 (jìyuè)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (孟月):

• → Japanese: 孟月(もうげつ) (mōgetsu)
• → Korean: 맹월(孟月) (maeng'wol)
• → Vietnamese: mạnh nguyệt (孟月)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
孟	月
もう Jinmeiyō	げつ Grade: 1
on’yomi

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) も​ーげつ [móꜜògètsù] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [mo̞ːɡe̞t͡sɨᵝ]

Noun

孟(もう)月(げつ) • (mōgetsu) ^{←まうげつ (maugetu)?}

1. the first month of a season: the 1st, 4th, 7th, and 10th months in Chinese lunar calendar