月子

Chinese

		moon; month	child; son; (noun suffix) child; son; (noun suffix); small thing; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch; 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight
simp. and trad. (月子)		月	子
anagram		子月

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yuèzi

  (Zhuyin): ㄩㄝˋ ˙ㄗ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyut⁶ zi²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yuèzi
    • Zhuyin: ㄩㄝˋ ˙ㄗ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yuèzi̊h
    • Wade–Giles: yüeh⁴-tzŭ⁵
    • Yale: ywè-dz
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yueh.tzy
    • Palladius: юэцзы (jueczy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɥɛ⁵¹ d͡z̥z̩¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jyut⁶ zi²
    • Yale: yuht jí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jyt⁹ dzi²
    • Guangdong Romanization: yud⁶ ji²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyːt̚² t͡siː³⁵/

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 月子

1. the month following childbirth, during which the mother goes through the traditional Chinese form of postpartum recovery, sometimes referred to in English as confinement or lying-in; puerperium
2. time of childbirth

Synonyms

• (Min Nan) 月內／月内 (ge̍h-lāi)

See also

• 月嫂 (yuèsǎo)

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
月	子
つき Grade: 1	こ Grade: 1

Proper noun

月(つき)子(こ) or 月子(proper) • (tsukiko or proper) [[Category:Japanese
|つきこ]]

1. a female given name