蜜月

Chinese

		honey	moon; month
simp. and trad. (蜜月)		蜜	月

Etymology

Calque of English honeymoon

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mìyuè

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧˋ ㄩㄝˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mat⁶ jyut⁶
• Eastern Min (BUC): mĭk-nguŏk
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bi̍t-goa̍t
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁸miq-yuq

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mìyuè
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄧˋ ㄩㄝˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mìyuè
    • Wade–Giles: mi⁴-yüeh⁴
    • Yale: mì-ywè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mihyueh
    • Palladius: миюэ (mijue)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mi⁵¹⁻⁵³ ɥɛ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: mat⁶ jyut⁶
    • Yale: maht yuht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mat⁹ jyt⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: med⁶ yud⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɐt̚² jyːt̚²/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: mĭk-nguŏk
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /miʔ⁵⁻³³ ŋuoʔ⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bi̍t-goa̍t
    • Tâi-lô: bi̍t-gua̍t
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bidgoat
    • IPA (Xiamen): /bit̚⁴⁻³² ɡuat̚⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /bit̚²⁴⁻² ɡuat̚²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /bit̚¹²¹⁻²¹ ɡuat̚¹²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /bit̚⁴⁻³² ɡuat̚⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /bit̚⁴⁻³² ɡuat̚⁴/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁸miq-yuq
    • MiniDict: mih^入 yuih
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁵miq-hhyq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /miɪʔ¹¹ ɦyɪʔ²³/

Noun

蜜月

1. honeymoon

   度蜜月  ―  dù mìyuè  ―  to go on honeymoon

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (蜜月):

• → Japanese: 蜜月(みつげつ) (mitsugetsu)
• → Korean: 밀월(蜜月) (mirwol)
• → Vietnamese: mật nguyệt (蜜月)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
蜜	月
みつ Grade: S	げつ Grade: 1
goon	kan'on

Etymology

Compound of 蜜 (mitsu, “honey”) +‎ 月 (getsu, “moon, month”), calque of English honeymoon.

First cited to 1903.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) みつげつ [mìtsúgétsú] (Heiban – [0])
• (Tokyo) みつげつ [mìtsúꜜgètsù] (Nakadaka – [2])
• IPA^(key): [mʲit͡sɨɡe̞t͡sɨ]

Noun

蜜(みつ)月(げつ) • (mitsugetsu) 

1. [from 1903] a honeymoon (period of time immediately following a marriage)

Synonyms

• ハネムーン (hanemūn)
• 新婚旅行(しんこんりょこう) (shinkon ryokō)

Derived terms

• 蜜(みつ)月(げつ)旅(りょ)行(こう) (mitsugetsu ryokō, “honeymoon trip”)